Posted on 12/17/2014 8:35:06 AM PST by SleeperCatcher
i am sure the supporters of the Articles of Confederaion were all in too.
Given the state of the morons who walk among us and vote, we'd be opening the floodgates for irresponsible, wholesale hope and change.
” So, what are conservatives to do when the leaders of their chosen party have become nearly indistinguishable from liberal Democrats? “
We have had two of these in a row. Now we are old pros : )
Article V convention.
Oh you mean like the wholesale hope and change that is being done to the constitution every single day right now?
Anyway, just keep voting GOP, because elections matter!
Not my party. The GOP left me a long time ago. I vote for some of their candidates if they are conservative enough, but I won’t belong to a party that willfully allows anti-Americans to rule our country outside the boundaries of the Constitution.
A pox on them all.
Withhold our financial support
Most definitely.
Totally wrong. It’s now or never...short of armed rebellion. Next week will be even worse than this week. And so on and so on.
There will never be a better time than now.
One question, when you talk about tinkering with the Constitution: Do we have ONE politician in the land who would be quailfied to carry one of the Founding Fathers’ jockstrap?
I have a better idea; let’s ENFORCE the Constitution we already have. If they won’t obey the original one, they’ll spit on anything else you might cobble up in an Article V Convention, too.
One question, when you talk about tinkering with the Constitution: Do we have ONE politician in the land who would be quailfied to carry one of the Founding Fathers’ jockstrap?
I have a better idea; let’s ENFORCE the Constitution we already have. If they won’t obey the original one, they’ll spit on anything else you might cobble up in an Article V Convention, too.
After the last election Republicans control 69 houses of the 99 state legislative houses. Republicans control 31 of the 50 state legislatures. To stop any unwise or imprudent amendment would require only 13 of these 69 Statehouse is (from different states) or about 19%, fewer than one in five.
The problem will not be to stop left-wing amendments but to pass prudent conservative amendments which restore the Constitution by invoking the Constitution.
If the Congress of the United States elects to have the ratification procedures conducted by conventions rather than legislatures, the method of selecting the delegates to those conventions would be chosen by the legislatures. If only 13 legislative bodies out of 99 object to the method chosen by the other body because it is considered to favor a leftist amendment, there is no ratification forthcoming from that state.
By either procedure the odds of a liberal amendment getting past so many conservative legislative bodies in so many states is both arithmetically and practically remote.
Finally, this is only the last line of defense, there are innumerable steps along the way which make a "runaway convention" virtually impossible and render the need for the states to fail to ratify very likely superfluous.
1. It won't work -so don't bother trying.
2. It won't work, even if it does work, because "they" will undo it, ignore it, or somehow overrule it, so don't bother trying.
3. It will work, but don't try it because it will work only for the other side.
4. No opinion on whether it will work or will not work, but the Constitution we have is just fine so the solution offered by the Constitution itself in Article V should be ignored in favor of redoubling our efforts and doing more of the same every election cycle because this time we will get different results.
Which category are you in?
With the corruption in both parties, I guarantee with all certainty, without a doubt in my lil ol mind, there will never be a convention of the states.
If and when it gets alarmingly close for comfort, you will see the power brokers, corporations and politicians go into full throttle evade mode to head a convention of the states off at the pass.
It ain’t ever gonna happen.
It just seems to me that anything that would come out of a Constitutional Convention would eventually be twisted away from it’s original purpose by the Judiciary, just like they have done with the original Constitution.
What is wrong with our current Constitution? What would you change and why?
What I have found is that the vast majority of those wanting a con con are like obama, have never read it nor have any plans to.
Even if we do get to a convention, what will stop the left from hijacking it and making things worse.
What do you refer to?
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