To Congress..."America doesn't trust you" Convention of the States.

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years, 7 months ago to Government
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Think they had their heads out of their asses long enough to hear that whole dissertation?
SOURCE URL: https://youtu.be/_XDVne27BaU?list=PL8h4sleiAEjXuabdE7VAEmx0UiguNZVlm


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  • Posted by Flootus5 9 years, 7 months ago
    Convention of States is the only constitutional solution? When they don't follow the constitution in the first place how is that going to work?

    Not to rehash all the arguments pro and con on a con-con, but there is indeed another constitutional solution not mentioned here. Nullification.
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    • Posted by $ 9 years, 7 months ago
      Got one coming up in my state this month...going to try and make it, for once, being held close to where I live.
      But, I hold out not much hope...my state is "hope"lessly demoncrapic...wondering how the argument could be framed so the mindless can get behind it....maybe, parables and metaphors?...nah...been tried before.
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      • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago
        Get George :Lakoffs book about Don't see the Elephant. Read carefully laughing when needed then follow the same path and that's how you get at the mindless mush of the country. It's how lakoff separates them from $10 for each of the ten plus books and he's only a plagiarist. no original thoughts just a one man secular 700 club. But it works for that group of mush minds.
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        • Posted by $ 9 years, 7 months ago
          Mush Brains...they have no connection to a mind otherwise we would see different behavior.

          Sounds funny but true...this is my work so I can't send you any links just yet.
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    • Posted by $ jdg 9 years, 7 months ago
      Nullification is unconstitutional, unless it can be shown that Congress wasn't abiding by the Constitution when it did the action being nullified.

      It will certainly be in order for the states to convene a convention themselves if Congress doesn't act once calls for one come in from 34 states.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago
    He does give one hope.
    So far, the current government has trashed the Constitution. What's to keep it from doing the same with the now government, whoever they are? I don't know if there's a strait jacket big enough to fit the Hulk. Which is what the government has become.
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  • Posted by ycandrea 9 years, 7 months ago
    The US Constitution was written to protect citizens against an oppressive gov't. Period. I think the provision for Convention of States is great! I hope the young people of this country take the bull by the horns and use this to save our country and dissolve the Federal Gov't.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago
    Another idea worth supporting. National Debt the true one is 114 trillion and you seriously contemplate people like Clinton, Sanders, or Trump? Trump just flip flopped on another issue and intends he says to support $15 and hour. Why?

    Cycle of economic repression is gearing up to inflate, devalue and repudiate that monster debt on the backs of not only the old folks, retired people etc. as last time but on the working class this time

    How many times they got to F you over before you quit voluntarily mixing sand in the vaseline?

    The Battle Cry of left wing socialism is BOHWCA Bend Over Here We Come Again.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 7 months ago
    Remember the key feature of an Article Five Convention: new faces. New voices. The new boss will definitely not be anything like the old boss. That's how this will work.
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    • Posted by $ jdg 9 years, 7 months ago
      That's its purpose anyway. Which means we've got to somehow prevent the Usual Suspects from choosing the delegates or writing the agenda.
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  • Posted by $ sjatkins 9 years, 7 months ago
    I am worried about such a convention because the people largely have less understanding of freedom and of the proper role of government than they ever in our country's history. I don't see it is going to be easy to get through that to more freedom supporting results.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago
    There is no reason to not go this route. While it remains open. One thing about leaving the Constitution for the Patriot Act Crap it automatically nullifies all Constitutional possibilities including Article Five.
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  • Posted by Joseph23006 9 years, 7 months ago
    The idea of some sort of Constitional convention is a bad idea because it opens the genie in the bottle with no way to it back. As to who represnts the States is another problem. The idea was originally the the House represented the People, the Senate the various States. Progressivism subtley got an amendment passed to strip the States of their power.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 9 years, 6 months ago
    Since everyone here seems to think that a Constitutional Convention would not solve the problems with the government and Congress the only thing left is the following: "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
    The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
    wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
    they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
    it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
    And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
    warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
    resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
    to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
    in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
    time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
    It is its natural manure."
    We will have to go back to Thomas Jefferson Statement and that the apathetic American citizen will have to be dragged kicking and screaming into a armed revolution.
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