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Having an Article V Constitutional Convention is not what our Founding Fathers wanted. Northern delegates to our first Constitutional Convention voted for Article V at Southern delegates insistence in hopes to appease Southern delegates into approving the final draft of the Constitution. They didn't.
During the first Convention there were some calls to adjourn and reorganize into a second Constitutional Convention. James Madison strenuously objected and said so in a letter to George Lee Turberville where he said, “Having witnessed the difficulties and dangers experienced by the first Convention which assembled under every propitious circumstance, I should tremble for the result of a Second.”
Instead Madison devised 12 proposed amendments to be introduced by the other Article V means, that is, through the safe mode of amending the Constitution, through Congress.
Things are now getting interesting. Whether it anyone yet realizes it or not this matter will be concluded one way or another within the next year. At that time a decision will be made whether to continue having the Constitution being the ruling document of this nation or to establish that the Government is enabled to deviate from its provisions. Nearly all the money on both sides of the political aisle is united toward creating deviation. I only wish they took time to consider the consequences of what they desire. But somethings just have to be learned the hard way in human history and I suspect this lesson is going to be one of them.
This article is very hyper partisan and slanted. I'm not even going to address the loose Koch ties brought up. You all realize you can push for your own Article V effort right? There's Wolf Pac pushing for a convention to address campaign finance. I imagine the writer and main audience would be all for that. And by all means, you should pursue it and see where it goes. That's the beauty of using the Constitution for reform in government. Whatever reforms being pushed need to have broad appeal to pass ratification - like term limits, and restricting government power. But I guess seeking reform via the Constitution is a bad thing in your view.
Right! Our founding fathers designed that the states have all power except that which was GIVEN to the federal gov't. What we see happening is the federal gov't usurping power from the states and dictating to the states what they will or can do. We need to bring the power back to the states as designed by the framers of our great constitution!
"Mathematically precludes?" Not at all The eleven most populous states represent 56% of the population.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population) Add state #12, Virginia, at 8.4 million gives a total of 59% of the population of the United States. Thus, the other 41% of the people, through their states, could make odious changes to our country. Check your numbers!
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