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Georgia on the Brink
Convention of States ^ | January 23rd, 2014 | COS Project Team

Posted on 01/23/2014 12:59:18 PM PST by Jacquerie

Attention COS patriots: Georgia needs your help! Tomorrow, January 24, at 9:30am the state senate Rules Committee will hold a hearing to discuss the COS application. This is a huge step towards passing the application in Georgia, and we need to show the committee we mean business.

So here’s what you can do:

If you live in Georgia, go to the meeting! It will be held at the Georgia State Capitol in hearing room #450. We need to pack the room so the senators know how many Georgians support a Convention of States.

If you can’t make it to Atlanta, you can still help. Send an email voicing your support to info@conventionofstates.com. You can type your own or simply use the sample letter below:

Hello,

My name is [Your Name], and I support the Georgia State Senate resolution (SR 736) to apply for a Convention of States.

A Convention of States is the last, best chance to curb the abuses of the federal government and force Congress to be fiscally responsible. The Founder’s included the Convention of States option in Article V for precisely the situation in which we find ourselves today. It’s our responsibility to use the tool the Founders gave us to limit the federal government’s power and jurisdiction.

Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the Constitution—I want Georgia to be the first state to save it.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

We’ll give your letters to our team in Georgia, and they’ll print them out and bring them to the hearing. We want a huge stack of letters, so get yours in ASAP.

Don’t live in Georgia but want to help? No problem. You can still send us your letters voicing your support for the Georgia resolution. With letters from folks across the country, we can show the Georgia state senators this movement has nationwide support!

Sending an email takes five minutes, but those five minutes will bring us one step closer to preserving liberty in our country. Thanks for standing with us!


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: articlev; constitution; statesrights
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To: bfh333

Sorry but I’m not willing to push a dangerous agenda on my state reps just so Mark Levin can sell a few more books.

I listened to him blather on about this for 3 hours on CSPAN all the while snarking callers who disagreed and preferred the 10th ammendment as the way to go. Mark Levin is just wrong on this issue.


101 posted on 01/24/2014 7:24:43 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Jacquerie

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102 posted on 01/24/2014 7:51:38 AM PST by VRW Conspirator ( 2+2 = V)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

No apology necessary... Waiting for state government to assert & resist is an option that IMHO will never come to pass...

Levins’ arguments and book has some flaws... I have done my own research from many resources and this is a viable option...

NO agenda is much more dangerous... Rome burns and we fiddle... We will be 20+ TRILLION in debt by 2016...


103 posted on 01/24/2014 8:06:45 AM PST by bfh333 ("Hope"... "Change"... You better HOPE you have some CHANGE after the next 4 years!)
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To: Rebelbase

Loss of 2A as a concern. I agree.

However, the right arm of the 2A is missing, the left arm is paralyzed, it can’t see out of the left eye and is blind in the right eye. It has a palsy that makes aiming suboptimal. The direction of the libs is to take away our rights by microstamping, fees, limits of all kinds.

If the courts determine that “shall not be infringed” means all of these infringements are allowed, I think the people need to speak, as they will not long have the ability.


104 posted on 01/24/2014 8:45:02 AM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: VRW Conspirator

The new and double meaning of “V.”


105 posted on 01/24/2014 9:10:04 AM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Political Junkie Too
Your view is all well and good, but how do you propose to control a convention of certain differing goals, aims, subterfuge, scheming and lord knows what when we can't even control the election process in this country now? For the last three or four elections, probably more. Even our own GOP(e) is against us.

I am not against the idea of it; I just do not trust it can be successfully implemented, and I think the disastrous potentials are something that should be very, very carefully considered.

I most certainly dislike the glib assurances I've been getting from proponents with an air of “holier than thou - we gotta do something, even if it's wrong” attitudes because we are currently living under a tyrant.

106 posted on 01/24/2014 10:21:54 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
Like I posted earlier, in order to control it the first thing is to go into executive session and keep deliberations secret. Second is to follow proper parliamentary procedure. Third is to ensure that the delegates are qualified leaders and statesmen from their states, and not union goons and thugs.

These are all things that the convention of 1787 did.

-PJ

107 posted on 01/24/2014 10:27:54 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

You can’t control any of that. Once the hoodoo starts, everything is out the window. You people are dreaming that honest people are in charge here.


108 posted on 01/24/2014 10:36:42 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Ingtar

“Am I the only one who thinks a convention would be a bad idea in today’s environment?”
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NO!
I have in other threads on the subject compared it to someone who goes to a doctor and asks him to prescribe a different medication because the prescription he was given has not helped him and in fact he feels worse than before he was given the prescription. The doctor asks if he is taking the medicine according to the directions and the patient says, “No, in fact I never went to the drugstore to fill the prescription.”

In other words we are totally disregarding the original constitution, why should I think that modifying it is going to help the situation? I am not Solomon the wise nor am I a prophet but I am not the dullest knife in the entire drawer either and I see no good coming from this.


109 posted on 01/24/2014 11:17:43 AM PST by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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To: Gaffer
So your position is basically that dishonest people are in charge, so we should just keep it that way?

How come those who wanted to stay a part of England in 1776 didn't prevent the Continental Congress of 1776 from declaring independence? Was it that, even though they disagreed they were still fundamentally honest people?

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Wikipedia says of the delegates:


The states had originally appointed 70 representatives to the Convention, but a number of the appointees did not accept or could not attend, leaving 55 delegates who would ultimately craft the Constitution.

Almost all of the 55 delegates had taken part in the Revolution, with at least 29 having served in the Continental forces, most in positions of command. All but two or three had served in colonial or state government during their careers. The vast majority (about 75%) of the delegates were or had been members of the Confederation Congress, and many had been members of the Continental Congress during the Revolution. Several had been state governors. Just two delegates, Roger Sherman and Robert Morris, would be signatories to all three of the nation’s founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.

More than half of the delegates had trained as lawyers (several had even been judges), although only about a quarter had practiced law as their principal means of business. There were also merchants, manufacturers, shippers, land speculators, bankers or financiers, two or three physicians, a minister, and several small farmers. Of the 25 who owned slaves, 16 depended on slave labor to run the plantations or other businesses that formed the mainstay of their income. Most of the delegates were landowners with substantial holdings, and most, with the possible exception of Roger Sherman and William Few, were very comfortably wealthy. George Washington and Gouverneur Morris were among the wealthiest men in the entire country.


Are you saying that it is impossible today to convene a body of fundamentally honest people of similar stature as before? I'm not talking about people who agree on all issues, but people who agree to abide by a governing principle of debate and deliberation.

Are you saying that America has turned the corner, and no such people can be found anymore to try to take back their country?

-PJ

110 posted on 01/24/2014 12:09:05 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: LachlanMinnesota
The new and double meaning of “V.”

Newt Gingrich told a story of dissidents in Soviet Poland who used the political slogan of "2+2=4" to counter the communists. The communists could not refute the logic, nor math. See tagline.

111 posted on 01/24/2014 1:23:40 PM PST by VRW Conspirator ( 2+2 = V)
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To: Jacquerie

What if we had a chance and did nothing?

I support your efforts and hope they are successful!

These are the days that I’m so happy I live in Texas! Our
governor understands states rights!


112 posted on 01/24/2014 5:29:11 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: LUV W
There really is very little time, isn't there?
113 posted on 01/25/2014 1:16:52 AM PST by Jacquerie (Restore federalism and freedom. Repeal the 17th.)
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To: Political Junkie Too; Gaffer; RipSawyer; bfh333; Georgia Girl 2
Since you (Political Junkie) brought up history, I'd like to attach an exclamation point to its importance.

In recent years, probably half of the Tea Party conservatives we've elected and sent to congress have gone wobbly or full rino. Why? Are they bad people? Maybe a small percentage were deceitful and had no intention of fighting the liberals. I believe the vast majority were truthful.

What turned them was the structure of congress. In a popularly derived congress, the way to remain in office is to, well, remain popular. In general that means robbing one citizen to give his wealth to another. Giving in to mob demands isn't outrageous, it is what is certain to happen in popularly derived institutions.

Back to history. Only eleven years had elapsed from our revolt to drafting the constitution. The confederation was totally inadequate to promote our collective happiness, our general welfare. As you pointed out, many of the same men who drafted the constitution, also had extensive experience in state and confederation government.

Most of them would go on to serve in the new constitutional government.

So, in a short period of time, much the same men served in our early state governments, the confederation, and our early constitutional system, yes?

Under the confederation, the people were hurting, our debts were massive, and European nations looked forward to picking up the pieces of our soon-to-fail revolution.

Under the constitution we spread across a continent, and within a hundred years became a second tier industrial powerhouse.

My point is that the structure of government is more important than the people we send to govern us. Under the Articles we were weak and at each other’s throats. The same people prospered under the constitution, because the structure of the constitution protected and promoted freedom and property.

THAT is why I regard repeal of the 17th as the keystone to our possible revival. Our framers knew that democratic republics always fail. They created a lasting structure that Americans of 101 years ago foolishly threw away.

As long as it is in the interest of individual senators to vote for more goodies, they will do so. They will personally prosper as they get rich in office, while their nation suffers and dissolves.

By all means elect conservatives, but it is insufficient if we wish to save what remains of our republic.

114 posted on 01/25/2014 1:50:15 AM PST by Jacquerie (Restore federalism and freedom. Repeal the 17th.)
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To: Jacquerie

Since you seem to be so well read up on history then you know that the reason for the 17th ammendment in the first place was because the senators being appointed by the state legislators was resulting in the same problems we have now.

The only answer to that particular problem is term limits and restricting the amount of time the legislators actually spend clubbing it up together in DC. Sadly legislators will never vote to limit themselves. Delegates to an Article V convention won’t either.

The solution to the problems of this country went beyond the ballot box the first week of Nov 2012. Taking back the Constitutional repulic will require a more significant shakeup. And it is coming.

But I see the GA rules committee has sent a resolution in favor of an Article V convention to the floor of our legislature.


115 posted on 01/25/2014 7:35:37 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
then you know that the reason for the 17th ammendment in the first place was because the senators being appointed by the state legislators was resulting in the same problems we have now.

???? How so? The government largely stayed within its constitutional bounds before 1913. What problems did the 17th correct?

If term limits are the answer, how do you propose to get the constitution amended?

You imply violence rather than a peaceful Article V amendment convention to correct what is wrong with our nation. That view isn't uncommon at FR, but no one has explained how that would work. If you have thought it out, I'd like to read it.

I suspect you haven't read the free Chapter One of Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments. It is available here: http://www.marklevinshow.com/common/page.php?pt=The+Liberty+Amendments&id=4183&is_corp=0

116 posted on 01/25/2014 10:46:36 AM PST by Jacquerie (Restore federalism and freedom. Repeal the 17th.)
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To: Jacquerie

Well dream on and wake me up when the Article V convention convenes.

Meanwhile you should contact Mark Levin and tell him to put you on commission for selling his book. :-)


117 posted on 01/25/2014 12:02:34 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Jacquerie
So what's the situation next door to Georgia in Armenia (ancestral home of the headmaster of my Christian HS)?

ff

118 posted on 01/26/2014 2:19:37 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: Admin Moderator
FWIW, I communicated a few months ago with Jordan Sillars, pressperson for COS. On condition of attribution, I received permission to post COS columns in their entirety.
119 posted on 01/26/2014 3:22:53 PM PST by Jacquerie (Restore federalism and freedom. Repeal the 17th.)
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To: Ingtar
Am I the only one who thinks a convention would be a bad idea in today’s environment? Calling a convention opens up a multitude of opportunities for mischief. The reason for calling the convention is not binding. We would more likely get a pair of amendments legalizing gay marriage and illegal aliens than anything that is helpful.

I remember getting into many a discussion on this back in the late 1980's and early 1990's on the old Fidonet BBS system where there was a push for States to call a Constitutional Convention and we had similar debates then. I can see both sides, but your concerns are a worry of mine too and I lean towards it being a bad idea. To me, it was a bad idea in 1988 and it is one now.
120 posted on 02/02/2014 2:40:04 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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