Take a wild guess at what happens after you propose an amendment.
Call a Convention of the States to Limit the Scope, Power and Jurisdiction of the Federal Government
Did you read the article by Mark Meckler, before commenting? I believe it explains how your fear of the constitution being completely opened to discussion and change are not founded.
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COS is our last chance to save the great experiment of self governance.
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This is a must to reign in our out of control federal government!
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With voting in many battleground states profoundly corrupted with extended voting periods (unfair to rural areas) unprotected ballot boxes, corrupt county clerks, and allowing non-citizens to vote; an amendment proposing Convention called by the States may be the only way to return our country to self-governance.
A successful Constitutional Amendment ratified by three quarters of the states has always been followed. Because it is clear it is the will of the people.
In Wisconsin the Administrative head of the Wisconsin Election Commission refuses to leave even after her term has been completed.
A successful Article V amendment would also help re-establish the rule of law. Which is being violated consistently by out of control career Politicians and various entities.
America is in trouble, We the People need to stand up.
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The Founders provided this mechanism for the peoples protection from tyranny! We must exercise this right to take our country back!!
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The scope of the federal government should be limited to interstate commerce, foreign treaties, and the protection of the American people and its interests. That’s it. Everything else should be handled by the states.
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Having been a proponent of amending the constitution by means outlined in Article V for more than 40 years, I have encountered many who, like 360, think that the constitution is perfect, meaning not in need of change. I can only compare them to those who put their heads in the sand and their butts in the air which makes them perfect targets.
Government is necessary, but it also requires inherent evils: the power to take your money and property, and the power to force your behavior. It is the knowledge of that dichotomy - and a firm understanding of the historical abuses of power and failures of governments - that motivated the founding fathers who wrote the constitution. Their entire purpose was to limit the power of government and to protect citizens from government.
Abundance and domestic tranquility has lulled Americans to sleep, allowing government power to increase and to do so without restraints or protections. Corporate money has crept into the political process and now so dominates campaigns and federal agencies that it has turned the US away from its roots giving power to individual citizens.
Congress has abdicated its defined role of making laws by allowing administrative agencies to do so. Those agencies have no practical or effective check and balance. Congress has also allowed administrative powers to accrete beyond the those exerted by those agencies. Nixon, for example, simply decreed that US currency did not have to have to be backed up by precious metals; therefore, money could be printed without limit if congress agreed. In my adult lifetime, printing money without precious metals in reserve has caused inflation of at least tenfold across the entire economy - and much higher in some cases. In just the last 4 years grocery prices have increased more than 25%. Inflation is the most pernicious tax, mostly because it can never be reduced. That did not happen in more than a century preceding Nixon’s pronouncement.
So, I would endorse and heartily support a series of conventions of states for the purpose of amending the constitution. As I understand it, for the process to be legitimate and legal, the states must petition congress to call a convention for them to discuss an agenda defined by the petition. Furthermore, all the petitioning states must agree on the exact terms in the petition and must agree to limit their discussions in convention to those terms. So, it is critically important that we all know the exact wording in any such petitions.
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That is a false flag warning, IMO.
Whatever action a CoS might take, it can only propose changes which then must be ratified by a 3/4ths affirming vote by states’ legislatures or by plebiscite in each state.
To say that you fear or would oppose because of what a CoS might propose is to say that you have no faith in the process - and by projection, no faith in the US Constitution - and no faith in the American people to decide for themselves.
That, IMO, is hypocrisy of the first order.
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I fully support the use of provisions of Article V that allow states to convene to propose, debate, adopt, and put forward amendments to the US Constitution for the people to consider and adopt or reject. I wholeheatedly agree that the federal government has become the people’s biggest problem and the greatest threat to the natural, God-given rights the constitution is meant to protect.
Having said that, I believe that this web page does a great disservice to all who come here, by not featuring in the most prominent manner possible, the exact text of any and all petitions the states adopt asking congress to call a convention of states.
WAKE UP FOLKS! Yes, vote to change your government as you have the right and duty to do, BUT insist on knowing the details lest you be hornswoggled by those who would use the process for other ends.
Not if we’re talking about article 5, a convention states, assemble with the purpose of keeping Congress out of it.
I’ve watched the grassroots action on this proposal for two years now, it has gained a foothold in most states and truly is the only answer to address the most important problems facing our nation, the politicians certainly aren’t going to support term limits or fiscal accountability. Politicians would never vote to have less over-reach into the public’s lives. We need a Convention of States to fix a broken system. We’ve had a couple hundred years of practicing what our Founding Fathers created, and since between then and now have seen the problems that have been created when corrupt people get into office and stay in office. Now let’s use the tool the Founding Fathers gave citizen’s to address these problems.
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Check out conventionofstates.com and learn more about this people’s movement.
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Calling a Convention of States for Purposing amendments to our Constiton is the only way we will be able to get our country and Our Constitutional Republic back and make it better than before. Our Founding Fathers did a fantastic job, but there needs to be some adjustments made to it.
The first one will be the start of reviving and restoring the America we all love and want back. For all those that went before us and those who are with us now and will come after us. To God be the glory and with his aid and assistant we will prevail.
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Article V, Convention of States is the tool/mechanism that the founders had the foresight to include for times like these with a runaway, unaccountable Federal Government that willfully ignores the consent of the governed.
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Agreed. This is where you can find the text of the actual resolution that has been passed in 19 states (almost identical in each state). https://conventionofstates.com/files/model-convention-of-states-application/download
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Also, per your suggestion, I put this link up at the top of the page…bottom of the proposal. Thanks for your input!
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Where have you been all my life. 
Great level of subject matter knowledge.
If you mean after the Convention would propose an amendment, the answer is that it would be transmitted to the 50 states for ratification debates, and would only become part of the Constitution if ratified by 38 of their legislatures.
Okay but that doesn’t mean that even a red state like mine wont decide to vote for free speech to be fact checked by a new government agency.