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To: redgolum

True, which is why there is no downside to calling for an Article V state convention to propose structural amendments to our constitution.


23 posted on 07/24/2014 11:17:10 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Jacquerie

Of course there is a down side.

The State feels its power slipping away, an Article V convention would be used as a method to try to re-centralize the power.

If we have said convention, there will be no First, Second, or Fifth amendment. The State has been trying to dissolve those for decades (though old political theory says that free speech, armed citizens, and the State not being able to lock up whomever they want is a bad thing).

Those Conventions would be hijacked as soon as they are called, if the movement is not being manipulated right now.


27 posted on 07/24/2014 11:27:23 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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