If you check the COS website, you'll find that applications using Georgia's language have been introduced in the legislatures of "X" states. In "Y" states the application has passed one house of the legislature. In 4 states, the application has passed both houses and has been transmitted to the Archivist for tabulation: Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Alaska.
I’ll check it out Publius. Thanks!
Well I hope the states will consider doing so. I'm all in favor of a balanced-budget amendment. BUT — a BBA, if ratified, would not reach to my main concern, which is the vertical distribution of powers as between the national government and the States, thus the people thereof.
The federal leviathan has invaded and usurped the Tenth Amendment RETAINED powers of the states. Our system of self-government requires, demands, the restoration of the original federal–state power distribution contemplated by the Framers. The federal government has a relatively few grants of power that are clearly specified in the Constitution. All other powers are retained by the states and the people.
To abandon this principle puts us in a topsy-turvy world in which absurdities are routinely spawned. Such as, for instance, the absurdity of five black-robed lawyers unilaterally imposing, against all reason and precedent, their preferential view of the "social welfare" on 320 million Americans, without their consent.
The "Georgia model application" for an Article V COS, while dealing with BBA matters, goes straight to stipulating the means and measures to restore and protect the Tenth Amendment powers of the states and the people.
I fervently hope and pray that an Article V COS will be convened soonest, around the subject matter of the Georgia model.