COS is truly the last hope of saving the Republic.
Go for it, Florida!
Get on board the Article V train!
Article V ping!
Well intentioned Article V advocates must guard against unwittingly becoming pawns of radical persons. The radical I speak of Larry J. Sabato of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Sabato came to my attention after investigating a series of articles which appeared in late March touting Jeb Bush. These articles all originated with the prognostications of Sabato. I wanted to see if there was any connection between Bush and Sabato. I did not find any, but did find quite a lot of other interesting information about Sabato.
Who is Larry J. Sabato?
He wants a Constitutional Convention (his words) to, among other things:
* Appoint all former presidents and vice presidents to the new office of “National Senator”
* Lengthen the terms of representatives from two years to three years, and set Senate terms to coincide with all presidential elections so the Senate would be elected at the same time as the President. (say good by to diffused power)
* Universal national service
See his book “A More Perfect Constitution”
See also his video from Nov 5, 2007, captioned:
“This is my introduction to the National Constitutional Convention, held on October 19, 2007 in Washington, DC. The event featured past vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro, Justice Samuel Alito, and former Senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole, along with a myriad of constitutional and political experts. We discussed the possibility of calling a second Constitutional Convention and what changes are needed to fix our broken system of government.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjTd9wrYvwM
As both the book and the video make clear, Sabato envisions this under Article V.
He has labored to prepare the ground for his radical seed by conducting a National Youth Leadership Initiative where students engage in a mock Constitutional Convention. This is conducted by The Center for Politics, which he founded, http://www.amoreperfectconstitution.com/youth_leadership_initiative.htm
Sabato is very well connected and has the prestige of the University of Virginia behind him. He should not be underestimated.
Article V advocates need to know who they allying themselves with.
Although a balanced budge amendment has not been mentioned with respect to SM 476, a balanced budget amendment per se will not be enough imo. Such an amendment will also need a provision which enumerates Justice John Marshall's official clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes.
“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.
A balanced budget amendment should also include a provision requiring all three branches of the federal government to police against constitutionally indefensible appropriations bills by doing the following. "Leaders" of all three branches should be required to clearly reference in official documentation specific constitutional clauses in the language of the bill to justify claims that a given appropriations bill is either constitutional or constitutionally indefensible.
Note that patriot lawmakers have tried, with limited success, to introduce legislation which would require Congress to police its official actions by specifying constitutional clauses in the language of bills which justify official actions.
Limit the terms of office for federal officials and members of Congress.
While I would support a term limits provision, once patriots force corrupt Congress back into its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited power cage, crook politicians who get elected just to follow the tsunami of constitutionally indefensible federal taxes to DC are going to lose interest in getting themselves elected to federal office anyway.
I will...
WELL DONE FLORIDA! Keep up the good work!!
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I don’t care about term limits.
I care about restricting the fedgov to ONLY its constitutionally mandated duties. IOW, they should only be doing about 20% or less of what they do. Then the fiscal will be solved simultaneously.
BTW I was thinking about what we were discussing last night. Maybe you could offer to give classes, formal or not, in survival type stuff like canning, gardening and so on - to people via Craigslist, or people in your area, maybe even the people who work in your immediate area, younger people.
Remember Clara’s youtubes of depression era cooking? A lot of younger people have no grandparents or parents to help them learn things.
I was thinking that last night.