Our constitution will be DOA when the fraud is sworn in.
Posted on 12/11/2008 5:28:28 AM PST by GWMcClintock
It makes you wonder what the Left will do with NY harbor once “liberty” dies?
Secede.
Time to secede ping.
There will be no re-write to the Constitution anytime soon.
1. People revere the document, in principle if not in actual text.
2. It’s not necessary; it’s not like it’s being followed anyway.
3. Any substantial change wouldn’t pass State muster, anyway.
4. The circus of a Con would destroy the Dem party in public opinion for a generation. Too risky.
From the article:
ACTION TO TAKE
We need only stop the House bill, HJR8, sponsored by Representative Louis Blessing, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (there is a Senate bill too).
1. Call Chairman Blessing’s office and tell his staff you oppose a Constitutional Convention and you want this process stopped.
Tell them this is the most dangerous time ever to call for such a convention.
Tell them no one can control the debate or outcome of a Con Con.
Representative Louis Blessing
Phone: (614) 466-9091
Fax: (614) 719-3583
Email: district29@ohr.state.oh.us
2. Call Representative Bill Batchelder. He is a very good man. I’ve known him for years. But he has been misled on this issue. The word is he is wavering. Your calls can convince him to withdraw his support. That can kill this bill.
Representative Bill Batchelder
Phone: (614) 466-8140
Fax: (614) 719-3969
Email: district69@ohr.state.oh.us
3. It is URGENT that you make your calls right now. The bill could be voted on as early as this afternoon (Wednesday).
LOL. I have this problem everyday til about 10AM
OMG I knew about this but I didn’t know we were this close !
I do not trust any modern day politian to re-write my Constitution!
...and Virginia right behind you. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but the last time the “governing” Americans tried to suppress States rights through constitutional interpretation,on the “governed” Americans, didn’t about 620,000 Americans die? And the question still was not resolved in the minds of many of us.
Our constitution will be DOA when the fraud is sworn in.
Who says any politicians have to be involved? Why can't we just vote some normal everyday citizens to represent us? (Isn't that the way the Founders planned it?)
Does ANYONE have ANY information from ANYWHERE else about whether we actually are two States away from a Federal Constitutional Convention?Thanks in advance.
FRIGGIN BASTARDS!! ALL OF EM!!
Keep in mind that a constitutional convention can only propose amendments, which then must be ratified by the states. It’s no more powerful than Congress in that regard.
While it only takes two thirds of the states to call for a constitutional convention, under Article V three fourths of the states (presently 38 of 50) is the minimum necessary to ratify.
A quick search this morning found conflicting information, as usual. Saw articles mentioning 30 states, 40 states, etc.
Looks like this may have started as far back as 1972.
Here’s a site that lists 26 states allegedly signed up:
http://www.sweetliberty.org/standing_calls.htm
Amazing how flippant the responses to this are here on FR. Obviously our public school system has sufficiently dumbed down our population beyond what even I thought was possible.
Our rights are given by our Creator. Since I was not created by the government, they have no say. The Constitution was written with that understanding in mind and the Bill of Rights define the limits of government with respect to those rights.
They can change the Constitution, it still does not remove those rights.
Rights cannot be taken, they must be given away. Unfortunately, we, as a country, have been giving them away at break-neck speed.
Constitutional scholars are divided as to whether such a convention would be limited to the one subject for which it was summoned or whether delegates could expand the agenda as they might see fit. Opponents of a convention assert "There is no consensus as to whether or not the convention would have the power to simply disavow the Constitution altogether and propose replacing it with an entirely new document, and that it is worth noting that such an outcome would be similar to what happened when the Convention of 1787 ended up writing the current Constitution. That convention was called for the purpose of revising the earlier Articles of Confederation, but it chose instead to abandon the articles in favor of a completely new document." The 1787 convention was authorized by the Articles of Confederation, by an act of Congress, and by votes of the states; and that under the Act of Congress, any action taken by the 1787 Convention was invalid unless ratified by both a vote of Congress and the states.
All this could lead to a second civil war errupting in this country.
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