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To: Red Badger

Whatever the convention came up with would have to be approved by 3/4ths of the 50 states, so what is your concern?


13 posted on 08/22/2013 1:22:03 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Repeal The 17th
"Whatever the convention came up with would have to be approved by 3/4ths of the 50 states, so what is your concern?"

If all a Con-Con produces is liberal, socialist legislation that's doomed to be rejected by more than 1/4 of the states, why even waste the time and money?

There is no Constitutional "solution" to the mess we've gotten ourselves into (other than the 2nd Amendment), because TPTB don't respect the Constitution. The only way we're going to wrestle our Republic out of the jaws of those who want to see it dead and gone, is for the states to form a coalition to tell Congress, the Obammunist, and the courts how it's going to be. The states need to tell DC which laws, which governing bodies, and which court decisions they'll (we'll) abide by, and reassert that "federal" means power shared between the states and the national government.

The states created Congress, and it's about damn time they step and remind those Potomac swamp rats of it. The states created the Constitution, which strictly limits and defines the powers of the national government, and reserves all other powers for the states and the people. They/we need to tell those elected thugs how it's going to be, not go begging to them, hat in hand.

Unfortunately, I don't there are enough guts in the various state capitals to even comprehend what needs to be done.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

61 posted on 08/22/2013 2:02:21 PM PDT by wku man (It's almost deer season, got your DEERGOGGLES on yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexrnFq2fXY)
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To: Repeal The 17th

“Whatever the convention came up with would have to be approved by 3/4ths of the 50 states, so what is your concern?”

Exactly. Look at this list of states: VT, NY, CA, IL, WA, OR, HI, CT, RI, MA, ME, NJ, MD, MN, and DE. In order to ratify anything you have to get 2 of these states PLUS every single other state in the unionto buy off. What makes any of us think they’ll agree to anything that’s even slightly conservative?


122 posted on 08/22/2013 4:20:29 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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