Many equate an Article V state amendments convention with congress, an institution in which freedoms and rights are easily traded away today for money, media support, and reelection tomorrow.
This is an erroneous comparison, for congress is popularly derived and thoroughly corrupted from its designed purposes. An Article V convention will be new, fresh, uncorrupted and federal, just like the only other remaining federal institution from 1787, the familiar Electoral College (EC).
If the states are so wild and politically insane such as to fear the outcome of a convention, why haven’t we had a “runaway” session of the EC? States do not have to cast their votes for the nominee of any political party. The EC confab is a one-day event outside the control of congress or scotus. Why hasn’t the EC proved to be dangerous?
No state delegation to the EC “ran away” because the duties of presidential electors are defined by state statute. Delegates to Article V conventions will arrive with detailed commissions backed up by statute with felony punishment for violations. Unlike representatives to congress, delegates to an Article V convention will serve their states and the national interest, and not themselves.
Furthermore, there will be an additional, yet immeasurable factor at work. Within the parameters of detailed state commissions, delegates will be entrusted to use their judgement. These men and women know that history will examine and critique their work. Will the states actually send rogues and miscreants? It is possible, yet what is far more likely is that the delegates entrusted with crafting amendments to save the republic will rise to the occasion. Fame and the respect of history will be their goal.
No society ever met to frame their ruling institutions in order to sell themselves into slavery. While the American tradition and society are certainly under duress, resistance is in the air. It is time to take advantage of the building wave of opposition to consolidated government.
Please reconsider your opposition.
Ain’t gonna happen no matter how much outside pressure you put on them. just mount a campaign to primary them, if you still can. That is the only pressure they will listen to.
The Electoral College has proven itself to be dangerous by voting for Presidential candidates who were not natural born citizens and were not eligible under the Constitution to serve as Vice President or President of the United States of America. The people who would rewrite the Constitution have already demonstrated an incapability and unwillingness to respect and abide by the current Constitution. Therefore, the Citizens of the United States have every good reason to suspect a Convention of States at this time can be abused to destroy the Constitution, rather than restore its original purpose and authority.