[Bob Ireland]

This vehicle allows we citizens to bypass our do-nothing - or the wrong thing - legislators and directly propose such amendments as a balanced budget, term limits, etc.

[Bob Ireland]

ping

[Durus]

Or such things as repealing the bill of rights.

[Jim Robinson]

Go for it! Restore the tenth amendment! Restore the limits on the federal government! Rein in the feds!!

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that if the federal government were to become self-destructive, it would be the right of the American people to alter it. In Article V of the Constitution our founders preserved that right by empowering the states, as those that originally established the federal government, to bypass and reform it by convening an Article V Convention, which permits the states to amend the Constitution.

Participants in the UCF Article V Convention Conference will decide whether to recommend this course of action to the state legislature after discussing the financial policies of our government. If the Article V Convention is recommended, a constitutional amendment will be proposed which would:

Implement major economic reforms, and optionally, empower the state governors and legislatures with the right to veto and enact federal legislation.

[Jim Robinson]

Go for broke!!

[Pan_Yan]

I don’t want the population who elected Obama to vote on a new constitution.

[Lloyd227]

Sorry, while I certainly understand and empathize with the motivation, I cannot support recommending to the legislatures a Constitutional Convention that will clearly be used by our enemies to rewrite the quite sufficient document we now have.

A much more effective approach will be to push our state representatives to enforce the one we have, especially the 10th Amendment.

If we cannot use what we have, which is clearly quite powerful, what makes anyone think our State legislatures will not strip the document and neuter such provisions leaving us with something more like the EU Constitution?

[Jim Robinson]

We either allow them to continue boiling us to death or we jump out of the pot and fight like hell for liberty!!

[Mr. K]

Rus- we need to look into this

[sergeantdave]

An article V convention would also allow the states to abolish the federal government, but we would need three-quarters of states to approve it.

At present, Republicans control 25 states and rats control 11.

[The Cajun]

It’s a start, what we got going for us now is going down the dumper day by day, faster and faster and there ain’t nothing to stop it in Washington.

[Jim Robinson]

If Texas and Florida would join forces in this it would be a great start. This is where the Tea Party needs to go.

[Monorprise]

I heard talk of this regarding a balanced budget amendment at Cpac and it is intriguing. The key however will be doing this while we still retain control of most of the State ledglsators and governorship.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

You know as well as I do that some of the delegates would propose, and maybe even pass, Amendments institutionalizing some of the rampant socialism that we are currently experiencing.

If you want a Con Con, make it a clean one. Have an amendment firing all members of the current Congress, as well as repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments and abolishing the Fed.

[liberalh8ter]

BFL.....and just an hour from me!

[BatGuano]

UCF is a 50,00+ enrollment community college here in Central Florida. I would not recommending taking a degree from a graduate at face value. Many students can't put a clear thought to words on paper.

I question why the University is hosting this event. I would bet that 80% of the student body voted for Obama. This could turn out to be a very bad thing!

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

Will try to make it, if possible.

[exnavy]

Bump