Posted on 01/07/2010 6:42:19 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
PALM CITY, Fla., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A national effort to add ten specific amendments to the Constitution of the United States was launched this week when the nation's 7,300 state legislators received the book "10 Amendments for Freedom" along with information on how to convene a Constitutional Convention.
The effort is being spearheaded by 10 Amendments for Freedom, Inc., a not-for-profit organization, to provide permanent restraints upon the federal government.
"The initial goal is to have the state legislatures vote to have Congress convene a Constitutional Convention to propose ten specific amendments be added to the Constitution," stated William H. Fruth, Founder and National Director. "After the amendments are proposed by the convention, they will need to be ratified by three-fourths of the states."
The proposed Constitutional amendments include the following topics:
"The Constitutional Convention will be the most important political event held in 200 years," Fruth continued. "It will reaffirm the belief the American people have in individual liberty and freedom and that government is created to serve the people, not control their lives."
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Any convention will be owned by the left.
Amend it, fine. A convention will be a nightmare.
0. State Legislatures can remove Congressional Representatives
(congressmen/senator) via impeachment process in State legislature. Citizens can call for a special Congressional Representative (congressmen/senator) election via a ballot initiative.
IMHO/ States rights got short changed when switch was made to
direct election of Senator FOR SIX YEARS.
I'd settle for repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments.
And as much as it'd be nice to have them, we can live without the line-item veto and congressional term limits if We the People are willing to use the ballot box to keep congress in check.
12. No one receiving money from any government entity shall have a vote, except, members of the military.
No. 11 happened to us while living in WA state. Every time they decided to raise taxes on HOME OWNERS to fund all their various lefty deals there, they allow everyone too vote on it, including ALL NON-PROPERTY/HOME OWNERS! What does some guy living in a motel, rented mobile home, apartment care if I had to pay higher taxes for him to get free stuff. Thus, these tax increases passed. Home owners were screwed and had too pay for these projects.
As for No. 12, you are screwing the old folks on SS, who paid into that fund and now are collecting. You can't punish those who paid into the program for getting back some of what they put in the stinking lefty program.
That reminds me!
“The last thing in the world we want is a Constitutional Convention. The left has all the organization and manpower and will be able to Constitutionalize the very things we are trying to prevent”
I agree!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Yeof little faith! I saw a Demonrat on FoxNews try to justify the closed door machinations going on in trying to ram thru the Obomacare deathcare crap.
“What we really need are men and women in office who will do their sworn duty to the Constitution we have now.”
Exactly!
“Congress convene a Constitutional Convention to propose ten specific amendments”
You don’t need a constitutional convention to propose amendments,,,, and constitutional conventions have no limits on what they can do. Sounds like a way to lose the 2nd, or make healthcare a “right”, etc etc,,,
And what would an amendment saying “congress must be transparent” even mean?
Bad bad bad idea,,,
“The last thing in the world we want is a Constitutional Convention.....”
BINGO!!!
I smell Soros money here somewheres....
Most of them are short sighted. Others are silly. The rest are the way things really already are but we as a nation have screwed up the reading.
Too many items that are statutory rather than constitutional in nature, and some that’re just bad ideas: “Allow for the presence of “God” in the public domain.” Who dat? Moloch?
“will find these admendments to be Unconstituitional.”
By definition,,,amendments are always constitutional. At best, a judge can only rule on the laws designed around one. But an amendment can’t be ruled unconstitutional.
TERRIBLE idea.
Marxists would use such a convention to end Americas Constitutional freedoms.
A dangerous and foolish idea to even toy with.
Sir, you obviously lack the life experiences of a wise Latina.
to remove ANY confusion (WE Conservatives are not confused by our 2nd Amendment, but left-wing un-American progressives and liberals are, be they democrat, independent, or RINO) about just what the 2nd Amendment REALLY means...
modify the 2A to simply say...
The right of the people to keep and bear arms, ammunition, and related items shall not be infringed in any way whatsoever.
problem is that once you open a constitutional convention, the whole document is open, and you cannot control what the special interests can do.
goodbye second ammendment, for example.
Urging the current Congress and Senate to convene a Constitutional convention is a profoundly lousy idea.
SnakeDoc
NO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION IS REQUIRED.
We have a perfectly good Constitution already.
What we need is a NEW CONGRESS and POTUS.
Thanks for your indulgence.
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