Go for it! Restore the tenth amendment! Restore the limits on the federal government! Rein in the feds!!
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that if the federal government were to become self-destructive, it would be the right of the American people to alter it. In Article V of the Constitution our founders preserved that right by empowering the states, as those that originally established the federal government, to bypass and reform it by convening an Article V Convention, which permits the states to amend the Constitution.
Participants in the UCF Article V Convention Conference will decide whether to recommend this course of action to the state legislature after discussing the financial policies of our government. If the Article V Convention is recommended, a constitutional amendment will be proposed which would:
Implement major economic reforms, and optionally, empower the state governors and legislatures with the right to veto and enact federal legislation.
This convention could open up a big can of worms. Or worst, put us on a path to CWII.
Then again, it might be time to hit the reset button...
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Yes, but you know as well as I do that some of the delegates would propose, and maybe even pass, Amendments institutionalizing some of the rampant socialism that we are currently experiencing.
If you want a Con Con, make it a clean one. Have an amendment firing all members of the current Congress, as well as repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments and abolishing the Fed.
“Go for it! Restore the tenth amendment!”
I’m confused. How would that work? It, or rather the idea behind it—given that it’s really more of an exposition on the mechanics of the federal system than a law itself—is already in force. Why would Washingtonians pay any more attention to a “restored” tenth amendment than the good, old, original tenth amendment? Are you going to tack on a “no, seriously, guys” to the end of it?