WASHINGTON – Momentum is building behind what would be
an unprecedented effort to amend the U.S. Constitution, through a little-known
provision that gives states rather than Congress the power to initiate changes.
At issue is
what's known as a "constitutional convention," a scenario tucked into
Article V of the U.S. Constitution. At its core, Article V provides two ways
for amendments to be proposed. The first – which has been used for all 27
amendment to date – requires two-thirds of both the House and Senate to approve
a resolution, before sending it to the states for ratification. The Founding
Fathers, though, devised an alternative way which says if two-thirds of state
legislatures demand a meeting, Congress “shall call a convention for proposing
amendments.”
The idea has
gained popularity among constitutional scholars in recent years -- but got a
big boost last week when Michigan lawmakers endorsed it. Michigan
matters, because by some counts it was the 34th state to do so. That makes
two-thirds.
In the wake of
the vote, California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter pressed House Speaker John
Boehner on Tuesday to determine whether the states just crossed the threshold
for this kind of convention. Like Michigan lawmakers, Hunter's interest in the
matter stems from a desire to push a balanced-budget amendment -- something
that could potentially be done at a constitutional convention…..To Read More….
My Take - This
all sounds good, but if all they're going to ask for is a balanced budget
amendment it will all be for naught, because Congress and the President have
always found way around this. The progressives always understood that if they
wanted to destroy the Constitution (both Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
were subscribers to be belief in l'état, c'est moi -
I am the state – and yet believed the Constitution was an impediment to
human progress) and takeover government it could only be possible if they could
get as much money as they wanted and destroyed states rights, thus they promoted the 16th and 17th amendments.
In the spring of
1913 the 16th and 17 amendments were passed giving them the foundational tools
they needed to fulfill their progressive (socialist) vision. If those two foundational tools of the left
aren't repealed nothing will be fixed.
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