There she goes again.
Posted on 02/04/2015 5:07:48 AM PST by cotton1706
Sarah Palin, toying with a presidential bid, has joined a growing effort to choke off President Obama’s plan to rule through executive order by calling a “Convention of States” to draw up amendments limiting his power.
“This idea is really the last recourse of the citizens to rein in D.C. and restore our country to a Constitutionally limited federal government,” Palin said in a new Facebook post endorsing the plan pushed by the Virginia-based group Citizens for Self Governance.
She is lending her efforts to urge legislators in Richmond to approve having Virginia join in the convention, already endorsed by over a dozen states.
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It will be irony indeed if a militant leftist president, aiming to destroy the republic, is the catalyst that leads to its restoration.
totally agree with Palin and cotton.
sorta history ping.
If you watch Hillsdale College’s, “The Presidency and the Constitution” series of videos you’ll find out the Prez has way, way, way too much power.
http://online.hillsdale.edu/dashboard/courses
Total, complete waiste of time. Pissing into the wind. Most of congress will die of old age before this would be done. If congress really wants to stop obama, just cut off the funding. But that takes "cajones", and they are in short supply in the nation's capital. All most of today's politicians want to do these days is BS, blather, pontifacate and run for reelection. SAD.
There she goes again.
This bypasses Congress completely, they have no say or authority.
There’s just one big flaw with everything about crowds screaming “ConCon! ConCon!”
If you put the USConst on the table, you put ALL OF IT AT ONCE - not just the parts You want to change.
Which means, Leftists can easily -ridiculously easily - hijack the convention agenda and delete things like parts of the 1st Amendment, all of the Second, and re-tool the 4th and 8th to suit their needs.
GoldPup makes a valid point: we will not see reform in our lifetimes due to the corruption. Nor will a quixotic campaign.
Jefferson said, “You will not need the second amendment until they try to take it away from you.” So that will be the tipping point for all the chair sitters here.
If you watch Hillsdale College’s, “The Presidency and the Constitution” series of videos you’ll find out the Prez has way, way, way too much power. - Jack Hydrazine
http://online.hillsdale.edu/dashboard/courses
I must admit our presidential removal system has never really worked, starting (Not so Coincidentally) with the First Democrat President Andrew Jackson, Who SHOULD have been removed after the Nullification Crisis.
And I am sure most of you are aware of Andrew Johnson and Slick Willy.
But a Convention of States is certainly worth a shot.
We Must take an interest in saving our Republic or no one else will.
Let’s Roll Back Fedzilla! Go Sarah!!
Go Sarah!
This is probably our last, practical, legal and constitutional method of saving our country, folks.
We need to stand behind this and create a grassroots momentum at the local level, driving it through each state.
We can’t allow the national debate to take control of this. It must come from the ground up.
Posted on February 03 2015 - 2:19 PM - Posted by: iizthatiizGovernor Sarah Palin is asking citizens to support a ‘Convention of States’ to amend the constitution:
LikedInstead of just talking about our need for a balanced budget while powerful politicians ignore the will of the people and dig us trillions of dollars more into debt, we have a way to force DC to listen. A provision within the Constitution gives states the power to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution – like a balanced budget amendment.
Check out this video to learn more about how this process works. Three states have already passed legislation calling for a Convention of States. Now it’s Virginia’s turn!
Please check out this blog post and take time TODAY to contact the Virginia lawmakers listed in the post and ask them to vote YES on the Convention of the States legislation in Virginia (SJ 269 and HJ 497):
http://www.patheos.com/…/contact-these-virginia-legislator…/
- Sarah Palin
PS – For more information, check out Mark Levin’s book “Liberty Amendments” and read his post here debunking the false claims from critics of this process:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-levin/attention-virginia-you-are-up/10152535945185946/?refid=17
I agree with Levin on this. . .the dire warnings and fear-mongering (here in VA, it’s delegate Bob Marshall) about a convention of the States does nothing to stop the changing of the Constitution taking place ON A DAILY BASIS!! It’s like refusing to leave a burning building because its a hot, sunny day and I don’t have any sunscreen on.
-——last, practical, legal and constitutional method——
I am certain that the founding fathers knew there were means that were more practical, not legal and not in accord with their constitution
They were the recent winners of a war that was all of the above
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
I am not sure they could pull it off but it would be great if they could.
Why don’t we all just sit down and die, then?
That is the absolute last strategy, and while it may be constitutional and legal and may be necessary, it is far from practical.
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