Who is the real enemy here?

I ask a simple question; How many people actually know what the Constitution says in writing, and what the intent of the Constitutions framers intended it to mean in context? How many Congressional Representatives know and follow the intent of Constitutional Law and it's separation of powers?

We all know that Congress has, and still is, playing fast and loose with the Constitution through partisan judges and deliberate misuse of the wording to use it to their personal advantage. In fact, the Democrats and RINO's have just about obliterated our once moral society, and replaced it with a perverse one. That is my personal opinion based on what I have been seeing since Obama speny 8 years tearing us down.

Lets take the most visible and controversial parts of the Constitution. Article-V, and the 2nd Amendment.

Article-V;

Article-V was deliberately put into the Constitution as a way to keep it modernized and also for the people themselves to use, instead of a bloody revolution if their government got out of hand and stopped properly representing them. Like ours is beginning to do nby becoming highly partisan with no legitimate compromises.

Of the 27 existing Amendments, it has only been Congress who originated the proposals. The people themselves have not been able to originate even one. Why do you think that is the case? Who do you think benefitted the most from that?

The naysayers have been bluffed into believing, if the people decided to use their Constitutional Rights and call for an Article-V convention, it would automatically become a Constitutional Convention, instead of an Amendment proposal Convention. That is the outright scare tactic LIE being fostered on the people to deny them their proper Constitutional powers.

THE SAME SAFEGUARDS APPLY TO A STATES PETITIONED FOR ARTICLE-V AMENDMENT CONVENTION AS APPLY TO A CONGRESSIONAL CALLED ARTICLE-V AMENDMENT CONVENTION. EXACTLY THE SAME SAFEGUARDS!!!

The only difference is if a states convention is called, Congress must initiate it, then step back and let the States control what is proposed as amendments. Congress can have no input into what is proposed by the States, nor can it change even one letter of any proposal handed to it by the States. It must then send out the proposals to all 50 states for ratification 'without recommendations' of yea or nay on ratification. That in itself is probably the main reason why there are so many falsehoods about how terrible it would be to let the American people speak for themselves on the Constitutional laws they want. Congress is afraid of losing their accquired power over the people IMHO.

REMEMBER; NEITHER CONGRESS NOR THE STATES CAN INITIATE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, TO OPEN UP THE BASIC CONSTITUTION OR CHANGE ANYTHING IN IT. ARTICLE-V WAS PUT INTO THE BASIC CONSTITUTION TO PREVENT THAT FROM BEING NECESSARY TO DO, LIKE IT WAS FOR THE ORIGINAL ARTICLES OF THE CONFEDERATION WHICH PRE-DATED THE CONSTITUTION.

Article V Says;

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

That is the level of control over the Federal Government which was given to the people through their State Legislatures to hold the Federal government in check and prevent overreach. With the exception of the Bill of Rights further defining and clarifying our unalienable ( definition; not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away or denied) Inalienable ( definition; not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away or denied). The Declaration of Independence acknowledged that all humans have innate, unalienable rights. That is the key premise to the Written Constitution. Remember; The main difference between the main body of the Constitution, and the Amendments to the Constitution is; Amendmemts can and have been repealed. The main body of the Constitution can not be changed. Amendments determine how the people want the articles of the Constitution interpreted in law, that the people and the government must follow.

These rules have applied to all 27 existing amendments that were ratified, and to the one amendment which was repealed. I ask you, is it reasonable to assume there will be a runaway convention when it takes 34 states to agree on what to propose as an amendment, and to have the wording of that amendment agreed upon by all 34 or more states who are attending the convention? Consider this; Who do you trust more to represent the Citizens of America today, Congress, or the People themselves?

Second Amendment.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The plain language of then Second Amendment When taken in the proper context and intent of the Founders was worded that way (ARMS as defined in 1791) to forbidding the government from (Infringing) restricting any weapon available to the military so the citizens would not be outgunned by their government like they were by the Kings government.

Strangely enough, there was not any problems with that philosophy of government hands off until the Democrats decided to enact the NFA in 1934 under the Democratic Administration of FDR. The only reason the NFA was not declared unconstitutional was because it was enacted as a taxation most people could not afford on certain firearms. The 1938 FFA enacted by a Democrat controlled Congress further restricted (infringed) on the Second Amendment using business standards as the excuse to avoid being declared Unconstitutional. (https://govtrackus.s3.amazonaws.com/legislink/pdf/stat/52/STATUTE-52-Pg1250.pdf ) The 1968 gun control act again severely infringed on the Second Amendment by using the excuse of controlling interstate commerce (commerce clause) to avoid an Unconstitutional ruling by again another Democrat Administration of LBJ. In 1968 there was also a Firearms Owners Protection Act created to stop ATF excesses of the GCA, however yet another Democrat stepped forward and changes it's perspective. A Democrat from New Jersey, Hughes introduced several amendments to FOPA, including a ban on the ownership of new machine guns or fully automatic/select-fire weapons. Existing ownership was grandfathered in, but new acquisitions were banned entirely. Transfers of ownership could be accomplished pending ATF approval and a complex tax stamp and licensure process. The right to own select-fire or fully automatic weapons had been stringently curtailed. Again Democrats ignored the Constitution and claimed a Tax to block the potential of an Unconstitutional ruling on the act. Here's a thought; The government has automatic weapons from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam in storage, all of them were manufactured before the 1968 act, and are therefore transferable. We should petition the government for their release to the civilian market. I am in no way advocating we should all go out and purchase them, I am simply asking the government to honor the 2nd Amendment and stop infringing on our rights.

Is anyone beginning to see a pattern here? The majority of infringement is coming from the Democrats, but the Republicans have also contributed to it. I don't believe we can just sit back like we have done for so long, but we must take our interests in our own hands for a change.

Judging by the track records of the leaders in Europe and other foreign lands, I think it is almost time to see America be taken over, and our leaders betray us like the foreign leaders betrayed their citizens. We must act now to stop it before it gets like London, Germany, France, etc where the basic systems are being redone by the foreigners who immigrated to the various countries to change them into the same societies as their own sh*tholes were.

I would really like to see as many comments and suggestions as possible on these ideas and how to get them started.

The Tradesman

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Who is the real enemy here?

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