Right Seeks Unprecedented Convention to Amend Constitution

Associated Press ^ | November 3rd 2018 | MATT SEDENSKY

[Scooter100]

Big mistake. A convention would open up the entire document to revision, threatening everything...free speech, right to bear arms, eligibility, etc. This is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Those pushing this are NOT patriots; someone get their names.

[2111USMC]

I agree with you.

I don’t trust the bastards. Any of them!

[Jacquerie]

Lordy you people licked on the 17th amendment ought to go back and look at the bribery and scandal and smoke filled rooms that were characteristic of that time

I checked out the era and wrote about it. If you'll read it, I'll post a link.

[JewishRighter]

Love that word “Unprecedented” in the title. Something for which there is no precedent can’t be legal in the American system.

Except for this one tiny inconvenient fact: the precedent is some little known document called THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Maybe Associated Press heard about it?

[Jacquerie]

Yeah, a COS might rewrite state constitutions, enshrine baby killing and fag marriage as rights.

[Jacquerie]

I wonder if they oppose the exercise of other clauses in the Constitution? History will not look well on a people who gaffed off peaceful means to prevent dissolution and war.

[Jacquerie]

<>Those pushing this are NOT patriots<>

I’m a patriot. FU.

[Steamburg]

The left never took note until they wanted to frighten the folks for getting off the plantation.

[tbw2]

I think the “let’s amend the constitution” movement is wrong on several counts.

We cannot assume Constitutional changes mean a damn thing when Democrat administrators and judges all say the heck with the law as written, our political dogma and definition of love, kind and moral says we’ll ignore the law and rule this other way instead. The Obamacare tax is a tax and isn’t a tax is a classic example of this.

Don’t waste time and effort amending the document when Democrats will ignore it or undermine it. Focus time and effort where it matters - electing people and appointing people who respect the law as written.

We need to fix things now through legislation, enforcement of the law and court rulings to reaffirm them, not spend 20 years trying to change the Constitution.

[Hypo2]

Is that why Democrat’s are against it?

[Jacquerie]

See post #45.

If elections alone secured liberty we wouldn’t have been on the cusp of tyranny in 2016. The Left has had 106 years amending the Constitution. It is time to go beyond popular elections and express popular sovereignty.

[vannrox]

Anyone with half a brain can see that the United States today is nothing like what was first proposed in 1776. Over the years it has been reinterpreted, adjusted, manipulated into the monster governance of empire controlled by non-American oligarch interests.

As scary as the convention of the states are, a continuation of the status quo is the road to full and complete tyranny.

What I would like to see changed would take pages.

However, fundamentally, the federal government shall not legislate anything. Nor shall it regulate anything. It will not tax anything, and aside from regulating commerce (in a defined and exacting manner) shall not do much else.

Some fun changes...

Instead of "birth right citizenship" you have "work right citizenship". If you work, you are a citizen where you work. Otherwise you are treated as something else; a child, a student, a retired person, or a drain on society.

Bill of Rights. All attempts to change it would be considered invalid and prison time for the offenders. The Rights, if you recall as provided by God. They stand on their own merits.

FDA, FCC, and FAA over-reach severely curtailed, if not eliminated completely. The government shall have NO POWER to regulate anything.

Taxation shall be up to the individual states. At max there can be but one tax. no hidden, taxes, fees or surcharges or what ever name others might want to assign to them.

The time for a Constitutional Convention is long, long, LONG overdue. We all should be collectively ashamed that we have allowed the United States to be come an empire. Today we are fighting EIGHT wars simultaneously. None of which attacked or invaded us. Yet, we have an invasion force of 10,000 military aged men running straight for us, and the liberal media is saying that we need to accept it as a nothing burger.

For the first time in 60 years our military is being used for it's intended purpose; to repel invasions. The fact that this issue is being disputed is a measure of how corrupted our situation has become.

[Brilliant]

Repeal the 16h amendment. Ban entitlements. Ban immigration.

[Jonty30]

I agree with you to cut spending. However, it is not enough to do that if you are not going to tie the politician’s hands in increasing spending later.

It has to be codified in law to force politicians to keep spending under control.

[Nifster]

Yeah right. They’ve done that before and it’s just ignored. A constitutional amendment won’t change that

[Spok]

If the left managed to hijack a constitutional convention it would be the end of America. There’s too much at stake to take such a chance. The left is too adept at obfuscation, extortion and terrorism.

[Jacquerie]

For the time being, the Presidency is the only office and major institution not dominated by the Left. The ones they do not control are the remaining federal institutions: a COS and electoral college. It is implausible for the Left to dominate a majority of state legislatures that will write the commissions for their COS delegates.

[Yulee]

As of April 2017, there were seven states with Republican control of their legislatures that had not passed a call for a constitutional convention
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It’s a Convention of States, and is in the Constitution. Amendments don’t have to go through a Congress that is influenced by lobbyists.

It is also limited.

[Jacquerie]

The purpose of our military is so lost on so many people. Yes, defend our borders and repel invaders.

PDJT is at best a pause, a respite from the galloping tyranny we barely avoided in 2016.

All man-made structures, including government, need maintenance and repair.

[JewishRighter]

“I wonder if they oppose the exercise of other clauses in the Constitution? History will not look well on a people who gaffed off peaceful means to prevent dissolution and war.”

You’re kidding, right? The left opposes the exercise of EVERY clause in the Constitution that they disagree with or stands in the way of their goal of transforming the United States into a socialist hell.