The reality is that Washington D.C. is infested with statists in both parties. There is only one way to correct the deep state that has launched this soft coup and that is by supporting and using the Convention of States Project. It has an umbrella that covers 3 areas under which amendments can be proposed.
- Limit the power and jurisdiction of the Federal Government.
- Puts fiscal restraints on the Federal Government (taxing and spending)
- Limits the terms of its officials. (House, Senate, All federal Judges, to include SCOTUS, staffs, bureaucrats and alphabet soup agencies)
This is the only way to put the Federal Government back into its Constitutional box.
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I agree wholeheartedly. Please everyone who is opposed to the Convention of States go to the website conventionofstates.com. Is it safe? The answer is Article V includes numerous safeguards that protect the U.S. Constitution and ensure that only widely approved amendments are adopted. The strongest safeguard? Any amendment proposed by the Convention goes through the exact same ratification process as amendments proposed by Congress. It must be approved by 38 states. That means if only 13 states vote no, the answer is no. It doesn’t get much safer than that! Go to the site and become educated on the subject. Our founders were brilliant. We have to use the tools they gave us. Any amendment will have a long battle for adoption but having the exercise of the states joining to questioning the scope and power of the federal government is a start. State legislators meeting and trying to bring the federal government under control is a good thing. Let’s bring some of the power back to the states. I have met my state representative. I cannot say the same for my federal state representative. The closer the government is to you the better it is.
My understanding is that the convention is limited to only the subjects presented… Is this incorrect?
In the 1818 State Dept publication of the “Journal, Acts and Proceedings of the Federal Convention ( Journal, acts and proceedings of the convention, assembled at Philadelphia, Monday, May 14, and dissolved Monday, September 17, 1787, which formed the Constitution of the United States .. : United States. Constitutional Convention (1787) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive ) page 388,
The last day of discussion before completing the Convention business and the last motion of that Convention… was brought that a general (open, plenipotentiary agenda) convention should be allowed to bring amendments for proposed ratification. THAT MOTION WAS DENIED… TWICE.! Per the Founders’ action then, All Article V conventions are limited by the applications sent by States’ resolution.
Be careful of opening up the process of totally re writing the Constitution. You may get something worse.
Worst that can happen would be… nothing happens.
If you open the constitution, you don’t think they soft coup that process as well?
Opening up the Constitution is not to be allowed… It is a red herring. Convention is limited by the agendas of the 34 States’ resolutions… anything outside of that agenda is null and void. Centuries of agency law preclude anyone from going beyond their authority of the resolutions. Pretty common-sense logic here.