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Georgia Votes for Convention of States to Amend Constitution
Newsmax ^ | 3/7/14 | Cheryl K. Chumley

Posted on 03/26/2014 10:33:58 AM PDT by PapaNew

The Georgia state legislature has passed a measure calling for a Convention of States to amend the U.S. Constitution, a move long championed by many in the tea party movement.

The action restricts the convention to topics of limiting the power of the federal government and establishing term limits for federal officials. Georgia's House voted 107-58 on Thursday to pass the measure, which previously had passed the state Senate.

"An Article V Convention of States would provide an opportunity for the citizens of this great nation to restore the balance of power between the states and the federal government," Republican state Rep. Buzz Brockway of Lawrenceville said in a statement.

Brockway, the measure's primary sponsor in the state House, urged "legislators in the other 49 states to join Georgia and call for a Convention of States for the purpose of proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution."

Under Article V of the Constitution, such a convention can be convened when requested by two-thirds of the states, and it is one of two ways to propose amendments to the nation's founding document. Ratifying the amendment then requires three-fourths of the states to approve it.

A measure calling for a Convention of States also was recently passed by the Alaska House Finance Committee.

"The federal government is just not listening to us," its sponsor, state Rep. Tammie Wilson of North Pole, Alaska, said Wilson told Newsmax. "The states have certain rights. The Founding Fathers put this process in place for a reason."

The Alaska measure also specifies that a convention must be limited in what it can consider, as critics have raised the specter of a "runaway" convention that could take on an ambitious constitutional rewrite.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: constitution; government; states; taxes
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To: PapaNew; Publius

“Republican state Rep. Buzz Brockway of Lawrenceville”
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He’s my rep!


21 posted on 03/26/2014 12:16:46 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: terycarl

Please read Post #12.


22 posted on 03/26/2014 12:17:34 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: PapaNew

There is a mixed bag of supporters and detractors
of an Article V Convention of States here on FR.


23 posted on 03/26/2014 12:19:15 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: terycarl

Who said anything about a constitutional convention?
Are we reading the same thing?


24 posted on 03/26/2014 12:20:26 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: terycarl
That's what I thought until I looked into it and read the premise of the convention. Did you read the premise? It is a Convention of States with a specific, limited subject matter: cutting federal government size and power. It is not open to ANY OTHER amendments. This is EXACTLY what needs to be done or else our country will disappear. The states who sign up under these conditions will not allow a push for some other rogue amendment.
25 posted on 03/26/2014 12:33:37 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew

No, unfortunately, the “con-con” crowd is alive and well on FR... It appears that we too have our share of LIV’s...

Here’s how I see it...

1) Article V Convention
2) Nullification
3) Peaceful Secession
4) CW2

The founders included Article V for a reason! It was NOT an afterthought ... It is the DEFACTO backstop...


26 posted on 03/26/2014 1:07:37 PM PDT by bfh333 (William Wallace was right! ~~~ FRRRREEEEEEEEEEEDOM ~~~)
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[ A Constitutional c onvention is a HORRIBLE idea....with liberalism as rampant as it is in this country, can you imagine what damage they would cause if they could modify the Constitution????? A horrible thought...at best. ]

I agree, a Con-Con is a HORRIBLE Idea... Soros WANTS an ILLEGAL Con-Con.

However an Article V Convention to PROPOSE new amendments is a very legal, very much enshrined in the constitution itself. An Article V Convention OF THE STATES is not a RE_writing of the whole constitution, it is merely a process that the State Legislatures can use to BYPASS congress in PROPOSING Amendments.

Congress can ALREADY propose new amendments, it is about the STATES propose some to take their power back after they were Neutered by the Progressive era Amendments and Wickard vs. Fillborn.

It only takes 13 states to Veto any Progressive liberal craptastic proposed amendments in the ratification process. I think we can summon up enough support to easily defeat ANY screwball liberal amendment that is proposed. The States themselves are mostly Conservative so this is a way of Neutering the FedGov complex before they finish killing off the the power that the states hold...


27 posted on 03/26/2014 1:12:31 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: bfh333
That's how I see it also.

I guess I'm not clear about some of this terminology flying around - like the difference between an "Article V" Convention and a "Constitutional" Convention other than the idea of the latter being open ended and at least in this particular case, the former being limited to a single subject: cutting federal government size and power.

28 posted on 03/26/2014 1:27:21 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew

Read Post #12 closely, particularly the section marked “Implicitly forbidden”. It should be clearer.


29 posted on 03/26/2014 2:09:13 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius

Thanks. It seems kind of subtle. Lost on a lot of folks I think.


30 posted on 03/26/2014 2:19:19 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Publius

Publius - you post the same reply to every post I make. Okay, I have heard you. Please stop. Take me off of whatever list you have. Enough is enough.

Thank you and have a nice day


31 posted on 03/27/2014 3:58:47 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
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