The framers not only crafted a pretty darn good blueprint for running our country their marketing brilliance was off the scale!
In Article V of the Constitution they gave us a way to amend the Constitution because they knew that over time the document they created would need some adjustments. (Remember the ‘V’)
It has been successfully adjusted twenty-seven times, though not for lack of trying. Congress has proposed over 11,000 amendments over the last 239 years since the Constitution was ratified.
Over the course of our history the federal government has grown more powerful and expansive than the framers envisioned. Our govt. is much like the tyranny that the colonist fought a war against.
The survivors of that war, the framers, gave us a document that avoid any hints of tyranny and had plenty of checks and balances. It truly was a government of and for the people.
They realized that a federal government was a necessary evil and that even though they wanted us all to be free that there had to be some unified body to protect our nation. But it was never intended to control every aspect of our lives, as is the case today.
It is time to use the second option for proposing amendments in order to restore the original intent of the U.S. Constitution. (Remember the ‘V’ from before?)
The Convention of States is the second option for proposing amendments in Article V of the Constitution. It provides the people, via their states, a way to bypass our tyrannical federal government to propose amendments to restrain our federal govt.
There are three topic areas of discussion – fiscal restraints (e.g. Balanced budget), term limits, scope & jurisdiction restraints (e.g. get out of education).
72% of the people think the govt is too big and does too much. 85% want term limits.
2/3 of the states (34) are needed to call a convention. ¾ of the states (38) must ratify any proposal that comes from the convention.
For more info go to conventionofstates.com
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