Convention of States Sample Letter to Your State Delegation

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[Jacquerie]

Here's the least you can do. Take the initiative that occasionally compels you to contact your federal delegation, and direct it toward your state representative and senator.

This is a sample letter you can send about the Convention of States Project. Please feel free to personalize it as much as you like!

Dear ______, Almost everyone knows our federal government is on a dangerous course. The unsustainable debt combined with crushing regulations on states and businesses is a recipe for disaster.

What is less known is that the Founders gave state legislatures the power to make changes to the federal structure when Washington, D.C., starts to abuse its authority. Article V of the Constitution authorizes the state legislatures to call a convention for the limited purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution.

Citizens for Self-Governance has launched the Convention of States Project to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments that impose fiscal restraints and limitations on the power of the federal government. I support this approach. I want [name of your State] to be one of the necessary 34 states that passes a resolution calling for a Convention of the States. You can find a copy of the draft resolution and a legislator’s handbook (which briefly explains the process and answers many questions) at www.conventionofstates.com.

I ask you to support the Convention of States Project and become either the lead sponsor or co-sponsor of a resolution in the next legislative session. Thanks so much for your service to the people of our district.

Sincerely,

[Jacquerie]

Politicians generally follow rather than lead. Get on yours to follow you, to grasp the peaceful means bequeathed to us by the Framers to save ourselves from tyranny!

[Jacquerie]

Article V ping!

[Pajamajan]

Bookmark, but, not possible in my state-the People’s Republic of California.

[Repeal The 17th]

Thanks, Jacquerie,
I just got back home from working out of state all week and living in motel rooms.
I will try to get caught up on the recent pings and read articles tonight.

[Jane Long]

Thanks. Will do....in Texas.

[ForMyChildren]

We can do this folks. The train is leaving the station, it’s already late, and naysayers are not needed.

[BillyBoy]

My State Senator and State Representative are gerrymandered Chicago machine hacks (both of whom represent an 80% suburban district) who vote however Speaker-for-life Mike Madigan tells them to. My entire town can vote against them, and they will win re-election handily because the tiny chunk of Chicago that's in the district has a large population that votes 95% RAT.

Ain't state governments wonderful?

[Jacquerie]

If nothing else, if you contact your rep he’ll know that not everyone in his district is a supportive leftist lunatic. He’ll know there is resistance, a grass roots opposition to the political and social filth he probably stands for.

[Jacquerie]

Ain't state governments wonderful?

Your state got special mention. If Your State is a Mess.

People in the worst states should be shouting the loudest, rather than rant at those taking constructive action.

[BillyBoy]

That article is an oxymoron. Everett Dirksen would have NEVER become U.S. Senator from Illinois if the 17th amendment had been repealed. The article takes the ridiculous position that if we could give the gerrymandered Chicago-controlled state legislature total control of our FEDERAL legislators, like it now has on the state level, Chicago would cease controlling Illinois at the state level. And how exactly do you anti-17thers think the gerrymandered map that ENSURES Chicago automatically controls a majority of state house seats would go away?

[Jacquerie]

You didn’t read the article. I didn’t actually expect you to.

[Repeal The 17th]

I have been going back to some of the previous articles and adding
“article5cos”
to the keywords so that I can find them by searching for keywords.

[BillyBoy]

On the contrary, I did read the article, and wrote back giving you an real-life example of what happens when I meet with my “accessible” state legislators. You anti-17thers live in some fantasy world that most state legislators actually care about the “best interests” of their constituents, because you happen to have a rare example of one that does.

[Jacquerie]

If a return to federalism isn’t the solution, what is? What steps should Freepers take to turn back the tide of tyranny?

[Arrowhead1952]

BFL

[VRW Conspirator]

V bump

[c-b 1]

I am confused, why would I believe that the lawless thugs in DC who ingore, or intentionally violate the Constitution, will somehow magically obey new ammendments to the Constitution?

[Jacquerie]

A Summary of Mark Levin’s Proposed Amendments

[Cyber Liberty]

You really need to get you a laptop with WiFi. ;^)

[central_va]

Virginia is a prime example, at least on if not both Senators would be Republican if the 17th was repealed.