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To: Jim from C-Town
you personally would lose right along with all the others who think they can prepare for mayhem by stockpiling rice and ammo.

As Pat Henry so aptly put it: "May your chains rest lightly, and may posterity forget you were our countrymen."

I paraphrase, but the sentiment is there.

27 posted on 02/11/2015 10:28:41 AM PST by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: dware

Right.

You seem to have little knowledge of how a Convention of the States is set up.

It does not open up the Constitution to a complete rewrite. It is simply another means of proposing amendments to the Constitution. It does not mean there are no pitfalls and possible traps in this type of approach. It simply means it is a better alternative than open rebellion or continued reliance on elections of Congressmen and Senators to enact the will of the people. They have been proved to be ineffective or simply too beholden to their own self interests to do so.

It would simply bypass congress. It would not rely on 2/3 of the Congress to propose amendments. The States would call for a Convention and appoint those who would participate. The Convention could propose one amendment or one thousand amendments. None would become part of the Constitution without first passing 3/4 (75%) 38 of the state legislatures.

That does not mean that all the amendments would be Conservative in nature, but since the delegates would be chosen by the state legislatures and presently 37 of those legislating bodies are Republican controlled, it is very likely that several would be Conservative in nature and those would have a much greater chance of reaching the 3/4 hurdle of approval.

It is a serious plan to reign in the government over reach. Unlike the insanity of espousing open rebellion or holding up in a hole in the ground while the country implodes. That won’t happen.

First sign of mass hysteria and civil unrest and the Left would push for a dictator to control order and a majority of the population would agree as they are little more than lemmings anyway.

Once that happens, your bunker and rifle will effectively be useless, except as a means of suicide by higher authority when the Army, or more likely a well trained police department or National Guard slaughters you with less effort than they would exert while swatting a fly.

You probably wouldn’t even make the evening news unless it was as a cautionary tale against standing up to the all powerful government.


29 posted on 02/11/2015 11:21:58 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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