Posted on 01/08/2022 2:31:44 PM PST by Jacquerie
Article V ping!
...the people are afraid of what
the people might do, and so
the people choose to do nothing...
Not. Gonna. Happen.
We know what he left is pushing, consolidation of all power at the federal level.
A Convention of States is a gamble. That’s true enough. But every day the Republic gets weaker, and the Deep State gets stronger. I can see no change in that going forward. So It’s time to roll the dice.
‘Permanently’ is intended to exclude those here on temporary visas.
Ha, Ha, thanks for the laugh. More than half those people are card carrying members of the Establishment Republican branch of the Uniparty .
1) A flat tax amendment; 2) a balanced budget amendment; and 3) an amendment that requires every legislator who voted in favor of a bill to have personally read every word of the legislation.
This is a good start as it removes a lot of power from the Congress.
<>Not. Gonna. Happen.<>
Just keep voting. As if it matters.
And interns and staffers of one politician can not be hired on by another.
I’ve heard this argument...that an Article V convention is a wildcard...for years, and I’m not sure I agree.
The convention only proposes changes, via offered amendments, based on the majority approval of the committee convened.
The proposed amendments must still pass the approval of State Legislatures.
“...shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress;”
The extent the public accepts being corralled cannot be regulated by words on paper. The CCP constitution gives ultimate control to the people, on paper.
Just as the US constitution does.
Sure, it is comforting to think about the GOP, today, controlling the majority of the state legislative bodies...
However, I can still remember the Browns having the last few minutes of a football championship game under control and Earnest Byner fumbling to ball on the 1-yard line with a little over a minute to go and the Broncos walking away with the win...
Today’s surrender-monkey GOP politicians would probably do the equivalent thing, fumble to ball, in a Constitutional Convention of the States...
After all, since WWII, what major things towards preserving our Constitutionally protected freedoms & liberties has the GOP ever accomplished when they have controlled, simultaneously, the WH, House, and Senate?
Hear the Crickets?
The constitution expressly gives Congress the power to create money and regulate its value. Inflation? An exercise of congressional power to create money out of thin air.
It's a power. Not inherently bad, no more than the power of a gun or bomb is inherently bad. Can be used for good, or for bad.
Equating Congress with all of the state legislatures is mistaken. State legislatures after all, are the bodies that submitted the Article V applications; they weren’t proposed by Congress.
No they can't.
The applications may state that only certain topics can be discussed but that has absolutely no force of law. Article V has no limiting language and while states may agree to a limitation when the convention's called they can just as easily decide to bypass that limit once in the convention.
An excellent point! You'll appreciate this short post: In Praise of the Soviet Constitution.
Read further in the article.
As the famous philosopher Forrest G said: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Today’s GOP is as today’s GOP does... At any level, IMHO...
What accomplishments have the state GOP legislatures to their credit, except on 2nd Amendment issues?
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