Great speech by Joanna Martin "Publius Huldah" on Convention of States Project and why we should never have a COS. She points out that most of what the Federal government is currently doing is unconstitutional and we don't need any amendments to rein them in.
She identifies Mark Levin's amendments and how it would enshrine as law those powers that the government has usurped.
Hi Kamy,
the chances of throwing out our current constitution is slim and none.
2/3 majority is a very high bar politically speaking.
In a COS it would be 50 states each with a single vote. or 33 and (1/3)
If it were initiated in the house, The number of voting representatives in the House is fixed by law at no more than 435, proportionally representing the population of the 50 states. 2/3 = 290 at max (too lazy to look up the current # of reps)
in Essence the 2/3 is called a supermajority for a reason.
It would be very difficult to get them to agree on a lot of pundit's speculated amendments, including Levin's...
so it would probably boil down to Really Hot button items, such as balanced budget, Term Limits, immigration-such as codifying elimination of anchor babies. it would have to be something that most of the people and their reps agree on.
then they write the language, and all the alterations to that -arguments resume...
when that's settled, then it gets sent back to states to Ratify any amendments, again by 2/3 majority
I guess what I am saying is, much like the impeachment fiasco, they can argue for just about anything
the chances of hairbrained ideas passing, not so much, sure there is a chance.. but it's very small..
It would be a shitshow at first, politico's pandering to their districts as we always see, but thankfully the founding fathers set a high bar, so that what boils down is something that that supermajority can agree upon at least in TWO major Votes, separate ratification process, and it would be SLOW unless they all agreed on something from the start...
The Convention of States Project of course has it's own agenda, with corresponding suggested amendments what would boil down to the actual wording & after effects can be much different..
it will boil down philosophically to constitutional Originalists making common sense amendments such as balanced budget and/or term limits for congress
VS
The Expected socialist/commie stuff coming out of california and things like abolishing the electoral college or term limits of SCOTUS...
The COS was intended as remedy for things that Congress ignores, such as self-imposed term limits, so the states can FORCE the issue via COS...
it's not the scary thing the pundits make it out to be.. RE: Over the years, the states have enacted over 400 applications for a convention, but none has ever been called, because two-thirds of the states have never agreed on the subject matter.
Good conversation BTW...
And No I have not watched the video, re: all the above.. ;)
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. With Bernie Sanders and socialism being so popular and Bloomberg stating that he bought 21 Democrats for Congress in 2018, frankly anything is possible today. I would never have dreamed so 5 years ago but here we are. With Bloomberg's fortune of between 59 and 64 BILLION dollars, he can bribe quite a lot of people and still have money left over. He is looking to take our guns and he flipped Virginia. He is a real life Dr. Evil and things are moving in a weird direction. Our government is already doing many things that are unconstitutional and the people in power are doing all in they can to stay in power. Even in my state which is a red state some of my state GOP reps have "reached across the aisle" to side with the Democrats to institute bad policies and the GOP has the majority. So I've seen first hand that the oligarchs are not giving up.
Now, Don't Get me started on the damnable commies !
I am from the Era that they were Mortal Enemies and to be feared, hated, and to be fought everywhere we got whiff of 'em. McCarthy was RIGHT !
The thing that gets me, is we still have the laws on those books, but nobody prosecutes, it's illegal to do a LOT of the commie activity we see today ! IE We could yank federal funding to colleges where they promote that shit !
The radical billionaires well, while they can and do a lot of damage, they can't buy TRUTH. We Live in an Era of information -SHARED information Bazillions of times further than our little thread, and the WORLD is Waking up to their Bullshit !
I have always been a registered independent, the fukkers have to work for my vote, although the last few decades I have voted for GOP, and this year STRAIGHT GOP on the ticket. The RINO is a problem I think also the people can solve via their vote.
I am hoping for a congress house & senate that is GOP or Trump leaning, then we might start adding permanence to the Presidential Actions & Orders !!
President Trump is just the kind of SOB I have always wanted, what I fear is after 2024 !!
It's possible Jr. can assume the role and keep the momentum going, but We need a gaetz or Jordan or Collins to actually dig deep into the permanent Govt Class and decimate them.
the fed is still printing clownbuks, at some point the world economy will evaporate because ALL the central banks are doing the same thing.
Not to mention Younger people will actually have to fight the Coming Holy War, and I'll be fucked if its not going to come from Europe itself !
I pity the places like poland and slovenia islands in a sea of jihadis... I think a huge indication of that is when they sac the Vatican, and behead the pope (not just bergolia could be ANY pope) they will mill around for a while and then spread out on their world domination tour... That is if we don't get swallowed up here via demographic jihad...
I used to get foam at the mouth crazy over this stuff, especially since it looked like Obama and then Hilary were actually throwing the levers of destruction. , my kids hated my e-mails LOL, but then came Trump, and he WON, further he reversed almost all of the important bullshit and working on the rest.
When I realized that all media was actually syops to induce emotions, I stopped it all, and life is grand now LOL... Their entire goal is to induce raw unthinking emotion, everything is a crisis, and 'they' have the answers... They go LIMP when they are IGNORED !
So long as each Generation fights against the usurpitations, we will remain. The Constitution is a self-healing mechanism, that I don't think even the Founding Fathers would have imagined, but it takes a Moral and educated people to KEEP it !
I agree with a lot of what you said. In my opinion the Constitution was a divine inspired document because it is the only one like it in the world. That being said, it has been overrun. There is so much that is against the Constitution that is being done. I have read that Trump wants to go back to the gold standard. I hope so. He is definitely an answer to our prayers about the globalists and where they have been taking us. Agreed on media too. But I'm hoping that the truth is getting to people and they are breaking the chains of brainwashing. The millennials are really brainwashed but it looks like the younger generations are smarter and not taken in by the BS. Since we are still around and are fighters, hopefully we can prevent the millennials from doing too much damage until we can get the next generation in a position to take over from us. Trump 2020