[Jacquerie]

The next assembly will be in the Indiana state house June 12-13. The leader of this effort, Indiana Senator David Long wisely keeps a low profile. The fact that the hundred or so various state attendees from the last assembly have also kept quiet speaks volumes as to the seriousness of the task ahead.

[Jacquerie]

The Article V movement continues! Ping!

[Amendment10]

I'm going to take advantage of threads like this to recommend amendments to the Constitution. Note that some of these suggestions are arguably crude and will need to be discussed.

• Establish time limits on all constitutional delegations of power to the federal government. Delegations of power can be appropriately renewed.

• All eligible voters will be required to pass a basic constitutional law test, a test stressing the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, before actually being allowed to vote. The test can be a handfull of questions and be administered with a written driver's test.

• Justice John Marshall's official clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes will be enumerated in the Constitution.

  “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• Children will be taught the federal government's constitutionally limited powers the way that the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood.

• Voters will have the power to petition to punitively recall / fire bad-apple state or federal elected representatives, judges and government employees, particularly when they don't respect Congress's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.