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| How a mock convention is helping fuel a movement to change the Constitution |
| 2018-07-30 |
| [CenterForPublicIntegrity] State legislators are pushing bills in at least 27 states after scores attended an event paid by two activist groups. The mock convention in Virginia was the creation of two nonprofits operated out of the same office suite in Houston, Texas, run by the same man: Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, an attorney and former Herbalife distributor. The two groups, Citizens for Self-Governance and Convention of States Action, paid at least $130,000 combined for 81 of those lawmakers to attend the trial run. Convention of States Action also promotes model legislation, provides citizen toolkits and lobbies state legislatures to promote a convention of states. |
| Posted by:newc |
| #4 This is your only way out of this Leviathan. Take it to your State Legislature and tell them they have to sign it. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-07-30 14:40 |
| #3 Every state except Hawaii has applied for an Article V Convention at one time or another. 12 states currently have active approval for an Article V convention. The usual response by Congress is to pass the amendments needded before the convention comes into being in order to maintain their ability to do so. The original bill of rights were passed in response to a threat of and Article V convention. And four other amendments (the Seventeenth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, and Twenty-Fifth Amendments) have been identified as being proposed by Congress at least partly in response to the threat of Article V conventions. Term Limits, Balanced Budget amendments come to mind. Perhaps repeal of the 17th amendment to correct that error which has damaged the balance of government and created an permanent political overlord class in the Senate. |
| Posted by: Boss Spoper5850 2018-07-30 14:11 |
| #2 be interesting to know where their money is coming from..... |
| Posted by: 746 2018-07-30 12:19 |
| #1 Remember, any amendments coming from a Convention still need ratification of a super majority of states. Same arguments from the last Constitutional convention are going to apply. Over half are not going to surrender their sovereignty or power to an even more powerful central government. The opposite may reign instead with states having seen their sovereignty stolen bit by bit by our defacto aristocracy that sits for life. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-30 11:12 |