Barack Obama has been one of the biggest offenders of all time in pushing through laws and new policies that completely ignored the processes required by the Constitution. He seeks to destroy the coal industry using unelected bureaucrats at the EPA who are under no real Congressional oversight, and who do not answer to the public at all.
Obamacare is another example of a law that was passed without following the required process of review and access. And of course the most recent effort to force gun control through an executive order is a clear example of executive overreach, and all of these examples clearly show that our hallowed form of government by the people has been ignored and besmirched.
But Obama is not the only culprit, with Congress also implementing laws and instituting policies that do not pass Constitutional muster. When Speaker of the House Nancy Polosi suggested that they would have to pass ground breaking legislation in order to see what was in it, the clear indication was of out of control legislators who had forgotten their duty to the people and were merely puppets following the whim of lobbyists and policy makers without recognizing their critical role in protecting the people and abiding by our founding documents. And lest we forget, the Supreme Court itself, the one agency that should be most attuned to the central document, seems to have devolved into a partisan stand-off that “find” things in the Constitution that simply are not there.
It is heartening, then, that Texas Governor Greg Abbott has proposed the “Texas Plan” which would call for a Constitutional Convention of States in order to add nine amendments to the Constitution with the intent of restricting the power of the federal government and bringing government activities back in line with the original intent of the founders.
See proposed amendments, page 2″
Your statement that “there are no established rules for this convention” is blatantly false. All you have to do to confirm this is to visit the COS website and inform yourself. You don’t seem to understand that the Washington cabal will NEVER, by themselves, accept things like term limits and adhering to principles of the 1st Amendment by eliminating unsupported functions like the DOE for just one example. So you’re saying if a new amendment limiting congressmen to, say 6 years total were to be adopted that it would be completely ignored?? Please get real here. In my opinion, a Convention of States is the ONLY thing that can save our country from continuing down the road towards eventual collapse.
impeach
…better hurry
I absolutely believe that our government and the people that run it are corrupt. Let me let you in on a little insider, actions speak louder than words. If you aren’t concerned about where this country is headed, you are delusional.
Corruption is everywhere, it’s undeniable, it’s unavoidable. But we as the American people should be smart enough to know when we need to stand up, and speak up against the ones we ourselves put in office. Let’s admit it… we screwed up. I screwed up. I should have voted in 2008, i didn’t. We put the wrong people in office, now it’s time to fix our mistake. That is what this nation was founded upon.
I love America, I’m proud to be an American. What I hope for my children is that they would experience the American Dream. The way we’re headed, they won’t. That is what I am concerned about. I want all of us to know what freedom is, I want my children to go grow up free, I want us to be kind to one another, what I don’t want is the government to steal our money ( that we all work so hard for) steal our liberties, take our guns, poison our food, supply and fund the very group that is trying to kill us (with aforementioned stolen money), supply guns to drug cartels, I want them to step up and protect the soldiers that risk their lives, for ours, instead of allowing them to sleep on the streets and go hungry every night. I don’t want them to force me to purchase health care, when I can barely afford daycare. I don’t want them to give OUR money, that we all worked so hard for, to those who can work but don’t, because they know how to play the system. I don’t want the banks to use our money to pay themselves, tax free, but then charge us interest on that same money .
I want them to put the American lives and well-being as a priority (rather than the power they are so OBVIOUSLY hungry for) before letting others in, that could potentially be a threat to you and me. I want my grandfather to pass down his hundred year old rifle, to my son as it is a family heirloom and very sentimental.
Everything I want for this country is the fundamentals upon which it was founded. I.e. the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States.
Thank you to the Governor for at least having the guts to be the first to stand up against this tyranny. Proud to be a Texas as well!
Hope so
Enough talk, time to get this done! Mark Levine has been asking for this for a long time!
A Con Con as some call it is NOT a good idea. They would then be able to rewrite the entire Constitution.
should of been done along fucking time ago!!!!
No person should be allowed to serve in any Public Office In The USA that is not a Citizen of the USA.
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