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Posted on 08/12/2013 2:05:01 PM PDT by neverdem
The Third American Revolution has begun.
Mark Levin’s The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic is the revolutionary blueprint millions of Americans have been waiting for. Released today, Levin leads the charge for “restoring constitutional republicanism and preserving the civil society from the growing authoritarianism of a federal Leviathan.”
Carefully and powerfully written, the book uses the Constitution itself to illustrate how to reform the Constitution itself. To finally turn the tables on progressives and liberals — Statists, to use the term Levin has brought back to life — who have spent the last century slowly and not so slowly transforming America into the aforementioned “federal Leviathan.”
Levin knows his subject. The nationally syndicated talk-radio host is also the lawyer heading the Landmark Legal Foundation, and, among his string of credentials a former chief of staff to Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese III. Levin also has three earlier best sellers that have set the stage for The Liberty Amendments: Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America, in which Levin examined the role of judicial activism and the subversion of democracy in favor of the liberal agenda (hint: think slavery, segregation, abortion, the importation of laws from other countries, the role of a Klan member in erecting the so-called “separation of church and state). Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto in which Levin detailed the “modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values…that has steadily snowballed” since FDR’s New Deal. And Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America. In which Levin reveals the role of the liberal ideal of utopia, the never-never land of human perfection that is always possible with just one more use… just one more… always just one more use… of power. A power that in harsh reality becomes a weapon “to dehumanize the individual and delegitimize his nature…a...”...
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can’t wait to read it!
Thanx, Mark.
What a pant load. While I sometimes enjoy Mark Levin, his underlying proposal is to have a constitutional convention. Keep on dreaming, pal. It would take 3/4 of the states to agree to one. Conversely, it means that 1/4 of the states plus one could confound any such move. Rest assured that at least 1/4 of the states are just fine with how things are going and wouldn’t sign onto this. Ever.
Is Levin seriously suggesting that states like MD, NY, CT, RI, CA, etc. would go along with this? Get me some of what he’s drinking!
I’ve got his other 3 books, and am going for this one, too. He’ll be discussing certain publisher-allowed parts of the book on the TGO Thread, tonite at 6pm.
Mark’s site:
“his underlying proposal is to have a constitutional convention.”
You could have just said you had no idea what the book was about and left it at that.
I’m with you.
Passing and ratifying amendments is MUCH harder than winning a simple election. Intentionally.
If we can’t win elections, what in WORLD makes us think we can get amendments through?
It’s like a guy failing to complete a 5k and deciding that his next race will be a marathon.
It’s like a guy failing to complete a 5k and deciding that his next race will be a marathon.
If you listen to Mark Levin, he considers this attempt to reverse statism a long term project, on the order of a decade or so.
“If you listen to Mark Levin, he considers this attempt to reverse statism a long term project, on the order of a decade or so.”
A decade, huh? And in the mean time?
It would be very hard to control what comes out of it. I believe that Matt Braken's "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" series Book 1 describes how lefties engineer a Con Con and proceed to enshrine diversity and such as Constitutional Laws while deprecating the Second Amendment.
I like Levin, but he's way off-base with this. Firstly for the reason everyone else states above (to hard to make happen) and secondly because it's quite dangerous.
I'd support passing Amendments using the normal process we've used for all the existing ones.
I have not yet read the book, so maybe he addresses this issue. But having read Matt's imaginary outcome he's got a VERY uphill battle to convince me. Matt's imagination is as accurate as anyone since Jules Verne, particularly when it comes to the mechanics of the left.
David Bossie’s review (apologies if it’s already been posted, didn’t have time to read the thread)
http://www.citizensunited.org/latest-updates.aspx?article=7460
Levin’s website is linked in comment #7. He’ll be on the net in 20 minutes.
“You could have just said you had no idea what the book was about and left it at that.”
And you could have simply noted that you’re a Mark Levin shill and left it at that as well. Isn’t it neat how that sword cuts both ways?
I read the article and noted that he wants a constitutional convention to implement his fine ideas for new amendments to the constitution. It isn’t going to happen. End of story.
If Mr. Levin has some other ideas that might prove useful, then I’m all ears. Since the book hasn’t come out, I guess I’ll have to wait for the reviews to see if it’s shown to be worth reading. I doubt that it will be: utopians with fine ideas are a dime a dozen, and I don’t have time to read their musings. I just think the time is better spent learning something useful, like how to can vegetables.
This is the only option by default. Nothing else has worked.
Shill? Ok, whatever floats your boat.
#2 He isn’t proposing a “constitutional convention”, but a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution. And no he didn’t say it will get done next week, but it is a plan. Far better then the big load of nothing his detractors have been serving up.
Now if that is still such a stupid idea, then what is your plan that doesn’t involve some fantasy of running around with a gun in a fantasy Civil War II or living in a hole in the woods with jars of corn?
It isn’t to rewrite the constitution, but to propose amendments. The states will still have to ratify them.
It is a way to circumvent a congress that would never vote such amendments that would curb their own power. There are clips of his show on YouTube where he explains in detail the reasoning and history of this route.
What could come of new Amendments, assuming they could pass a welfare craving population? We are at the present pass because of constant contravention and ignoring of the Constitution as it is. Why would an essentially all powerful government pay any attention to any new amendments? The fabled Tipping Point occurred a long time ago.
What sort of new Constitution would a new Convention produce? It would be one like the European “constitution” that would run to thousands of pages and cover every major and minor contingency the delegates could think of. The Founding Fathers are all dead. The chance that a large group of such men could come together again and without being swamped by the detail men and the fonctionaires is terribly remote.
I have listened to every podcast since the day after Obamacare was signed. Read all his books except for Rescuing Sprite, saving that one.
On Topic...people just need to start making the enemy hurt, literally...we need to stick to the Constitution we have. Trying to change it will just dilute it's original intent.
“Rescuing Sprite” was out of print when I tried to get it, recently.
“Now if that is still such a stupid idea, then what is your plan that doesn’t involve some fantasy of running around with a gun in a fantasy Civil War II or living in a hole in the woods with jars of corn?”
A Convention to propose or a Con Con. It’s still not happening and it’s still stupid.
You seem to confuse me with someone else. I don’t and have never advocated CW. That’s just a good way to see lots of dead Americans. Count me out. You’d be hard pressed to show an example of a country that was better off after a CW than it was before.
In my view, a lot of what we’ll be doing in the coming years is learning how to deal with a failing nation state. The first objective will be taking care of you and yours. I don’t think “living in a hole in the woods with jars of corn” as you so condescendingly put it is much of a plan, either. I think it’s important to plan for contingencies and doing so in large numbers makes it much less likely that a worst case scenario will happen. Ironic, but true.
Longer term, I think we will have opportunities to do better. My challenge to folks is to stop thinking about a “glorious revolution” and start thinking like Gandhi. Not the romanticized Gandhi, but the shrewd and effective politician. The key, though, is making sure you and yours are still here to play a part in it.
It’s now or never. Although to be candid, Levin used to ridicule Mike Church for suggesting an Article V convention. If it was framed as personal liberty and freedom, I think it would get done. The IRS and drone strikes have really struck a nerve with Joe public. Now or never.
Congrats, you’re part of the problem. Nice to see you’re part of the go along get along republicrats.
Now go away and let the real thinkers go over the issue.
Being interviewed on Hannity now. Outstanding, as always.
2/3 to call the convention. 3/4 of the states to ratify amendments.
Many thanks!
That’s the link to the Con-Con chapter in Foreign Enemies and Traitors.
“Congrats, you’re part of the problem. Nice to see you’re part of the go along get along republicrats.”
Now that’s a new one. Funny too. If there is something in my posting history showing anything but contempt for the gop and ‘rat wings of the uniparty, please be kind enough to let me know so I can heap more scorn on them and set the record straight.
This plan, such as it is, is doomed for failure. Again, a plan that requires 3/4 of the states to approve it by definition would allow 1/4 plus one state to scuttle it. At least 1/4 of the states and I think closer to half are just fine and dandy with the status quo. They will never go for a Con Con or a convention the discuss amendments or a convention to discuss a convention.
Same deal. 1/4 plus one state can scuttle the deal. Ultimately more than 1/4 of states are just fine with the status quo. They aren’t going to buy the change.
An Article V convention requires 2/3 of the state legislatures (34) to be convened, and any amendments that come out of it require 3/4 of the states for ratification. However, as the 27th Amendment shows, there is NO TIME LIMIT on how long amendments can lie waiting for final ratification. Sooner or later the amendments would find ratification.
Ordered my signed limited edition last week!
I respectfully disagree. I don’t see 3/4 of the states ratifying. And even if a sufficient number of states ratify, how long are you willing to wait for that to happen??
“And you could have simply noted that you’re a Mark Levin shill and left it at that as well. Isn’t it neat how that sword cuts both ways?”
I don’t listen to Levin daily, but in the episodes I have been able to catch the past couple of weeks, he stresses this is NOT a Constitutional Convention, and specifically why that is an important distinction.
That said, calling someone a shill when they have the facts on their side is poor manners.
“I don’t listen to Levin daily, but in the episodes I have been able to catch the past couple of weeks, he stresses this is NOT a Constitutional Convention, and specifically why that is an important distinction.”
I don’t agree that it’s a meaningful distinction. Ultimately you need a super majority to ratify the amendments agreed upon. A super majority that does not exist. And in any case, it occurs to me that whether you institute 1 or 100 amendments, the key is in the observance. Is Mr. Levin arguing that his new and improved constitution is more likely to be successfully observed? And if so, how?
The underlying problems are as much cultural as political.
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