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To: OneWingedShark
That is my concern. When our Gov is already ignoring the Constitution, what would
any Article V convention make. Nobody is enforcing the Constitution. It's pure insanity!

The FBI and Attorney General cannot act anyway without retribution from
Congress and the President. They'll all just be replaced until they're silent.

78 posted on 03/09/2015 8:24:50 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: MaxMax
That is my concern. When our Gov is already ignoring the Constitution, what would any Article V convention make.

Well, one of the big deficiencies of the Constitution is that there's no Constitutionally mandated penalty for ignoring it.
That is something Article V could fix and, indeed, is part of an amendment I've been thinking about that would fix our debt-problem:

Fiscal Responsibility Amendment
Section I
The power of Congress to regulate the value of money is hereby rescinded; the unit of money of the United States is the Dollar.

Section II
The value of the Dollar shall be one fifteen-hundredth avoirdupois ounce of gold of which impurities do not exceed one part per thousand.

Section III
To guard against Congress using its authority over weights and measures to bypass Section I, the ounce in Section II is approximately 28.3495 grams (SI).

Section IV
The Secretary of the Treasury shall annually report the gold physically in its possession; this report shall be publicly available. Any five states may commission a third party audit to confirm this report at their own expense.

Section V
The power of the Congress to assume debt is hereby restricted: the congress shall assume no debt that shall cause the total obligations of the United States to exceed one hundred ten percent of the amount last reported by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Section VI
Any government agent, officer, judge, justice, employee, representative, or congressman causing gold, money, or real estate to be confiscated from a citizen shall be tried for theft and upon conviction shall:
    a. be removed from office (and fired, if an employee),
    b. forfeit all pension and retirement benefits,
    c. pay all legal costs, and
    d. restore to the bereaved twice the amount in controversy.

Section VII
The federal government shall assume no obligation lacking funding, neither shall it lay such obligation on any of the several States, any subdivision thereof, or any place under the jurisdiction of the United States. All unfunded liabilities heretofore assumed by the United States are void.

Section VIII
The federal government shall make all payments to its employees or the several states in physical gold. Misappropriation, malfeasance and/or misfeasance of funds shall be considered confiscation and theft.
See this for all the amendments I would propose.

The FBI and Attorney General cannot act anyway without retribution from Congress and the President. They'll all just be replaced until they're silent.

I don't know about that; Congress isn't exempt from Treason charges — given the amount of open-borders guys in government all it would take to totally screw them over would be for a governor to declare a state of invasion, put their National Guard on the border with lethal-force authorization, and demand that the federal government assist as per Art 4, Sec 4.

80 posted on 03/09/2015 8:47:07 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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