Posted on 06/25/2014 3:28:27 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN FRANCISCO -- There hasn't been a U.S. constitutional convention in 225 years, and it would take a daunting number of states, 34, to call another one.
That didn't deter Democratic legislators this week from making California the second state, after Vermont, to demand a nationwide gathering of delegates for a single purpose: to propose an amendment repealing the Supreme Court's 2010 decision that allowed unlimited corporate spending on political campaigns.
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Figures.
Seriously why do they care? It doesn’t matter how much money Republicans have, they are dog turds under the heel of the rat machine (see Meg Whitman)
It is horrifying that the Democratic Party wants to use the Constitution to weaken Americans’ civil rights.
They don’t like any of the Bill of Rights
All that California has to do is make it impossible to do business in California and then no California businesses will be able to afford (or will even be around) to contribute to campaigns.
Until the Liberals are ready to answer the specific question as to who the online donors were to the Obama presidency, and how much, they really don’t have much credibility asking for limits on campaign spending. The Liberals cry wolf so often it’s hard to take them seriously any more.
Democrats only want the filthy union money in politics because most of that always goes to them.
We might get an Article V convention after all.... to dump freedom of speech
Simply horrifying.
I assume that “corporate” includes labor unions.
Read it again.
Obviously the writer of this article is incapable of READING, if so he would know that there has been a push for this exact thing , and a lot of states have already notified Congress and passed legislation in their States to do Just that, I believe there are enough States already, or pretty damned close, but the issue is to Stop Big Government, not the CITIZENS, Which is why California WILL NOT be a part of the process in the very near future.
Yeah, good luck with that.
One of the reasons there has never been an Article V Constitutional Convention is because once you call one there is no way to limit what they do. They can vote to re-write the entire Constitution if they want (except they are specifically prohibited from depriving any state, without its consent, "of its equal suffrage in the Senate").
Of course, whatever comes out of the Convention has to then be ratified by 3/4 of the states, which is another reason why there has never been one.
If they hold a convention, is it limited to only one amendment/topic, or can many more amendments be considered and/or passed?
I’m thinking along the lines of the ones Mark Levin’s book proposed.
Ill trade you, striping the concept of citizenship from a corporation for a restoration of the 10th Amendment.
It doesn’t really matter, democrats don’t control enough states to ratify an amendment.
That being said we could bargon. it is an insane idea to let government(thus inevitably its political leaders) get in the business of regulating their competition, but a deal could be made to let them do it at the State level.
Their States will turn themselves into despotic dictatorial hellholes, and we will leave the union.
California is also the state that wanted to give police an unlimited right to access every bit of data on your cell phones and tablets, including access to your cloud data, without first obtaining a search warrant. The Supreme Court voted unanimously that California was wrong.
Citizens do not lose their rights when they join with other citizens in a legally incorporated economic enterprise. In fact, the civil rights of each and all of them lodges in and is bestowed upon the corporation, collectively.
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