Posted on 05/13/2014 5:52:30 AM PDT by JOHN W K
This is amazing. What Levin has proposed is a convention to propose amendments to the constitution and these people are against allowing any debate on proposing amendments?
You haven't read Levin's book have you? If you had, you would know that is one of the key proposals.
/johnny
ITS NOT A CON CON. STOP LYING LIKE A GODDAMN LEFTIST
It’s NOT a “Constitutional Convention” as so many here are conflating it with.
An Article 5 convention of the states does not convene without a specific set of amendments agreed upon beforehand and a restriction that no amendments beyond those will be brought up.
I am so sick of all the people saying it’s a con con. GET EDUCATED!! Isn’t it 1000 per cent better to have a convention of the states than have one maroon of a president with a pen and a phone? He and his administration of dudes and dudettes are destroying our country.
In effect, Supreme Court has been doing that for decades. Do we have Freedom of Association anymore?
These are the problem. This is why I quit the Birch society back in the day. On the surface, they are constitutional, but then one gets into the creature, and it becomes apparent they are as queer as can be.
They are not the whole problem, but are a part of the whole.
What difference does that make? Both parties routinely ignore the Constitution and the Supreme Court justices can’t read plain english. The only thing that will restore our rights is the same thing that gave them.
An amendment can also repeal an existing amendment, the way the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment (prohibition).
It is strictly constitutional to propose amendments to the constitution. What these bastards are saying is..nobody can propose amendments.
Who the hell made them tyrannical dictators no better than the present occupant of the white house?
Don’t due it. Our country started when the first convention tossed the Articles of Confederation. Given the imbeciles in charge today you would not believe what would come out of a convention; i.e. repeal of the Second Amendment; Free medical care for the world, no white male may hold public office. You get the picture.
They could simply refuse to vote for increasing the debt ceiling and the balance budget amendment
They will never vote against increasing the debt. This has always been voted on from Reagan through today and never voted down. Too many scary nonsense is being said for it ever to happen.
[to the author] You’re utterly and willfully ignorant as to what Levin is calling for and he has explained it so many times it’s monotonous at this point. And every armchair reactionary idiot who hasn’t read Levin’s book has further not checked for him/herself that what Levin is calling for is explicitly called for in the Constitution.
The level of non-thought embodied in this screed isn’t worth responding to. You haven’t educated yourself as to what is being proposed.
Your insistence on returning to apportioned taxes from the States is correct.
The federal government was created to manage the affairs of the States as a whole, and not to subjugate them or their citizens directly.
Since the States created the club, they can pay the dues. And collect them from their own members in a way that they will have to answer for...to their neighbors.
Lot harder to send thieves with guns to take money when you live with the people you’re trying to extort.
I know, I know...”The States didn’t write the Constitution, the People did!”.
Convenient dodge. Then why have apportionment written into the document?
Levin’s call for a Convention is an attempt to circumvent the logjam known as the Congress and the Courts. But it comes with incredible risk.
Perhaps better to repeal the offensive amendments placed there by the “Progressive” movement of the late 19th Century. But how to put the Court back in its place? How to end Regulatory delegation and strip the Bureaucracy of it’s arrogated power?
I don’t think there are easy answers.
I guess you assume everyone has read his book or you'd have added that reiteration yourself, right?
Then, are you for nullification?
I think our boy committed what is called a hit and run.
Wow, the list must have gotten shorter of late. It used to be a couple of months between his turns.
Or maybe he's making inroads into the apathy the democrat fascists count on?
I sure hope it's that he's making inroads in the massive apathy in this country. I can't believe the number of people who have given up and accepted that things will be getting worse year after year.
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