Posted on 11/30/2014 3:28:43 PM PST by Up Yours Marxists
Rising frustration with Washington and conservative electoral victories across much of the U.S. are feeding a movement in favor of something America hasn't done in 227 years: Hold a convention to rewrite the Constitution.
Although it's still not likely to be successful, the effort is more serious than before: Already, more than two dozen states have called for a convention. There are two ways to change or amend the founding document. The usual method is for an adjustment to win approval from two-thirds of the Congress and then be ratified by three-quarters of the states. There have been 27 amendments adopted this way.
The second procedure is separate from Congress. It requires two-thirds of the states, or 34, to call for a convention. The framers thought this was necessary because Congress wouldn't be likely to advance any amendments that curtailed its powers. But this recourse never has been used.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
The author of this article and others who do not truly understand how a Constitutional Convention works should read Mark Levin's wonderful book, The Liberty Amendments.
After reading the book, you'll agree with the first paragraph above.
Moonbat GOP? You don’t understand this process. An Article 5 convention rips the power from Washington. If you think that what we have been doing for the last 70 years secures freedom and prosperity... you are deluding yourself.
You underestimate the courage and fortitude of the fine men and women in the States. For your information, Conservatives just swept the elections IN THE STATES and I can guarandamtee you they ain’t gonna be taking any lip from Obama goons anytime soon. In fact it’s going the opposite direction as we speak.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Run along now junior! You’re out of your league here!
Why is giving the states a shot at the Amendatory Process “the worst idea possible”? Please explain.
“Explain in detail how the left would have a ‘field day’ with this.
Tick ...Tick ...Tick ...Tick ...Tick ...”
Only a fool would want to overturn our original constitution. The only problem our Constitution has are the liberals that attempt to reinterpret it and destroy it.
Continuing along the establishment path is likewise exceedingly bad. The difference? We’ve never tried an Article 5 convention yet.
Please read Posts #3 & #12.
Bump to anyone who believes a Constitutional Convention is held to “rewrite the Constitution.”
To deny the people via their states their natural right to amend the government is an affront to our founding.
> “Only a fool would want to overturn our original constitution. The only problem our Constitution has are the liberals that attempt to reinterpret it and destroy it.”
Article V does not attempt to overturn the US Constitution. It allows that assemblies in the States be empowered to PROPOSE AMENDMENTS outside of Congress. People do not trust Congress today and the Constitution is being twisted and abused by the Courts.
Therefore, our neighbors and friends in our States are what we entrust to repair and make clear in our US Constitution the will of WE THE PEOPLE.
For starters, a Federal Marriage Amendment.
The contemporary values of all factions of our society would distort the majesty of the document. Can you imagine an official language (not English)? Guaranteed right to abortion? Universal voting regardless of age or citizenship? Pot and street drug decrimilization? Green party or Ron Paulites agendas folded into the constitution? .
Amending the constitution is another story. Sure, if a common cause garnering the support to pass an amendment arises, it deserves passing. If it later is determined to be a mistake, it can be amended back out just like prohibition.
The bottom line is that the original document works just fine. Some of our politicians just need to read it.
Simple: $. $ in oh so many ways. Direct federal support - as you say highway funds - but also other federal spending. Military bases and any & all other federal facilities located in a State that didn't back amendment proposals favored by the administration and the other big governments types in DC - yes, even a GOP controlled Congress. Far too many GOPe types in there that don't want to see the fed shrunk. It would be "suggested" that States that don't support these amendments might find the location and existence of their federal facilities (and thus the $ and jobs associated with them) "re-evaluated" and possibly re-located to more compliant States. This is a *lawless* administration and so-far compliant and complacent Congress. Don't imagine they wouldn't throw a couple of bones into the amendment pool...
A convention of the states to amend the constitution seems like a reasonable approach to the out-of-control Federal Government.
How else are we going to stop the Democrat and Republican politicians from taking more and more power from we the people?
A major newspaper completely misrepresents the convention of the states to propose amendments to the Constitution, which is completely different from a wide-open constitutional convention.
An Article V convention doesn't "overturn" anything. It's the states proposing amendments that would then need to be ratified by all the other states. And, btw, the entire process is in Article V of the Constitution. At this point, it's the last peaceful hope before civil war.
Will John Boehner or Mitch McConnell permit a vote by the new congress to recognize that the Article V threshold has been met? Almost certainly not.
All that is needed is a simple majority of both houses, and the Article V convention is a fact.
When I took up this cause in 1998 by editing the brief of Walker v. US, I began using the Term "Article V Convention", which lacked the fear factor. Then one day someone said to me, "Dude, like what's an Article V?"
Judge Andrew Napolitano uses the term "Amendments Convention", and I've taken that up because it's the best descriptor of what this kind of convention can do.
“Explain in detail how the left would have a ‘field day’ with this.”
Are you dumbed down too?
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