Posted on 02/20/2014 2:19:29 PM PST by cotton1706
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The state House on Thursday passed a series of bills and resolutions aimed at calling for a national constitutional convention to rein in spending in Washington.
The House, largely along party lines, adopted House Bill 794, House Resolution 1215, Senate Bill 206 and Senate Resolution 371.
The U.S. Constitution allows for states to call for a convention to consider amendments. If two-thirds, or 34, states adopt similar resolutions, a convention is ordered. The proposals adopted Thursday call for a convention and outline how a potential Georgia delegation would be named.
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Article V ping.
Careful what you wish for.
Yes.
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The amendatory process under Article V consists of three steps: Proposal, Disposal, and Ratification.
Proposal:
There are two ways to propose an amendment to the Constitution.
Article V gives Congress and an Amendments Convention exactly the same power to propose amendments, no more and no less.
Disposal:
Once Congress, or an Amendments Convention, proposes amendments, Congress must decide whether the states will ratify by the:
The State Ratifying Convention Method has only been used twice: once to ratify the Constitution, and once to ratify the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition.
Ratification:
Depending upon which ratification method is chosen by Congress, either the state legislatures vote up-or-down on the proposed amendment, or the voters elect a state ratifying convention to vote up-or-down. If three-quarters of the states vote to ratify, the amendment becomes part of the Constitution.
Forbidden Subjects:
Article V contains two explicitly forbidden subjects and one implicitly forbidden subject.
Explicitly forbidden:
Implicitly forbidden:
I have two reference works for those interested.
The first is from the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative pro-business group. This document has been sent to every state legislator in the country.
Proposing Constitutional Amendments by a Convention of the States: A Handbook for State Lawmakers
The second is a 1973 report from the American Bar Association attempting to identify gray areas in the amendatory process to include an Amendments Convention. It represents the view of the ruling class of 40 years ago. While I dislike some of their conclusions, they have laid out the precedents that may justify those conclusions. What I respect is the comprehensive job they did in locating all the gray areas. They went so far as to identify a gray area that didn't pop up until the Equal Rights Amendment crashed and burned a decade later. Even if you find yourself in disagreement with their vision, it's worth reading to see the view of the ruling class toward the process.
Report of the ABA Special Constitutional Convention Study Committee
yeah i don’t think we’d particularly enjoy a new constitution written by the rinos and gop-ers not to mention dems, liberals and marxists, and the various political lobbyists - unions, chamber of commerce, agenda 21/globalist groups, etc.
implied would be trampled over by democrats and obama. look what he’s doing to the constitution now.
GA ping list ping.
Before you use the term “new constitution”, please read Post #6 in detail.
Read up and educate yourself before you post.
Don’t be part of the disinformation campaign.
“... trampled over by democrats and obama ...”
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Obama would have nothing to do with it.
The Constitution we have is not perfect, but far better than anything that would be created by a governing body today.
The problem is not the constitution, but the extra Constitutional power grab of the Fed Gov.
It is TIME to DownSize DC!
It is TIME to move the center-of-gravity of the Fed Gov from DC forever.
It is TIME to put those who plot and subvert the Constitution in Jail. They took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. Hold them accountable.
While it will NEVER happen ... utter insanity to even hope for it.
Excellent!
Clearly Aaron Gould Sheinin is an ignorant scribbler at the AJC
We dood it!
yeah i saw.’apparently it isn’t explicitly forbidden.
al i can say is when you deal with delegates from a party where they passed obamacare by a gut/replace measure and changed the cloture rules that have existed for 230+ years,
i will tell you that anything “implied” is going to be ignored if it gets in their way.
who will stop them? who is stopping them now? who has stopped’obama from taking over legislative powers?
why do you imagine our delegates will somehow have the nads to stop their delegates?
“... It is TIME to DownSize DC!
It is TIME to move the center-of-gravity of the Fed Gov from DC forever ...”
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And this is exactly what the convention of states wants to do.
Read up on it.
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