I see the piglets feeding at the public trough, are once again slapping down Americans wishes, and taking their marching orders from their hidden elite masters. Voters who elected them to REPRESENT, not to rule over them. The latest vote on the bloated CR proves that! All the outcry about public spending, and all the exposure of shady dealings, still did nothing to curb the excess greed processed through that package deal called a Continuing resolution.
I can now confidently state; If the American People do not start acting immediatly to use the Article-V measure for a "States called Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention", to cut our iniquitious Congress out of the process, we will never again have any control over our government.
Our Founders put Article-V in as a safety valve, to allow the people to stop the government when it's so totally out of control like it now is. To do so without waging a shooting war to control it. We know every Amendment so far, has been exclusively been originated by Congress. Those Amendments have by benefited Congress more than America and the American people, by giving legal interpretations of the Constitution, and contrary to what the Founders intended the Constitution was supposed to do to protect for the people.
Every time the people have tried to access Article-V through their States, they have been thwarted by a concerted effort to block and scare them off. Usually the methods center around the Falsehood if the States called an Article-V it would create a Constitutional Convention which could and would open the main body of the Constitution to be rewritten. THAT IS A LIE!
If it were true about opening the Constitution to change, don't you think the corrupted elements in Congress would have already done it to benefit themselves even more? The safeguards in place which restrain Congress, also restrain States, from opening the main body of the Constitution to change it. Granted, Amendments can be created, changed, or repealed, but that is exactly what Article-V was designed and intended to do. The safety factor is how those changes are ratified.
For an Amendment to be proposed by the States, the amendment proposal wording, must be exactly the same for every State in the convention, and agreed on. It must be worded as agreed on by the States delegates to the Convention, when submitted to Congress to be sent out for Ratification. Congress can not change or alter anything about the proposed Amendment. When Proposals that fulfill those criterion are presented to Congress, even if they already have the 3/4 approval of the States, Congress MUST send that proposal out to all 50 States for a formal Ratification vote. At this point, it takes 38 States to approval to Ratify an Amendment.
The process is the same for the States as it is for Congress; For Congress a proposal must be made on the floor. The specific wording of the ;pro;posal must be agreed on by members of Congress. When that criterion has been reached, it's then sent out to all 50 States for formal Ratification. Congress has proposed approximately 11,848 measures to amend the Constitution from 1789 to Jan 3, 2019. During the course of history, 27 Amendments have been ratified and one repealed. Six additional Amendments have been submitted to the States, and have not been Ratified. 307 U.S. 433 (1939)
Does anyone wonder what those Amendments proposed by Congress only, to change the interpretation of the articles of the Constitution, would have done to America? It all comes down to this; WHO DO YOU TRUST MORE WITH OUR FUTURE, CONGRESS OR OUR FELLOW AMERICANS?
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