National Pulse
Conducted by The Trafalgar Group, the poll is the latest example Americans’ lack of support for the economic policies of the federal government. The poll included 1,000 likely voters and was conducted in early July 2022.
The data revealed cross-party support for reining in the federal government’s spending and executive powers by ratifying Constitutional amendments proposed during a potential Convention of States. A Convention of States is a process outlined in the U.S. Constitution, which allows states to to propose amendments if more than two-thirds of the country, 34 states, convene. It then takes 38 states to ratify any proposed amendments. More
The problem is not our constitution. Adding/changing the words in it won’t fix anything. They don’t follow it now and won’t follow an amended one. The problem is the people in charge, not the constitution. We need to change the people first.
Democrats would make a Pandoras Box of it, filling it with abortion and perversion and racism as Democrats do with EVERYTHING, while centeralizing power, emshrining disarming of citizens, and arrogating all the authority to themselves in perpetuity.
…Be careful what you wish for, because you may just get it.
Good.
And.
Hard.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
-John Adams
…good luck with that…
Sorry SNS, but I couldn’t disagree more. A convention of states would be limited to only what was agreed upon prior to the convention. A regressive wish list won’t and hasn’t passed muster. 34 state legislatures will not agree to turn the nation into California. Then as stated, it takes the vote of 38 state legislatures for any amendment to pass.
Here’s what is for certain. Doing nothing will result in everything you spelled out and we know that because it’s here already. We’ll just get more of it. Here, because the political class is wholly and totally corrupt. They need a reminder of who it is they work for.
The convention agreed to by 18 states to date is to discuss amendments that, “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.”
This is the neat and tidy way to reform our government. There is no guarantee that it will work. The messy way also comes with no guarantee.
But if we choose to continue to type out our grievances we can be certain that the feds will seek and attain more and more power. Bitching, pissing and moaning on the Internet is not a methodology for reform of an out of control government.
We need to enforce the Law regarding the failure to Honor one’s Oath of Office and imprison or execute the convicted.
Just more noise to cover the stolen election.
Pretending to do something, while doing nothing at all.
They have us bent over, now bind and gag.
And they have been working on the gag for several years.
A piece of paper is only as strong as the men willing to kill and die to abide by it.
Though something’s better than nothing, it’s tantamount to screaming “I’m really serious!”
I cannot think of one tyrant (except Cincinnatus) who willingly gave up his tyranny – in some 6,000 years of “civilization.”
Not that it can’t happen!
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
A COS will be a can of worms that we won’t like what it’d be turned into. We have a viable guide that worked over a 100 years. It’s taken numerous abuses that were never intended like the 17th Amendment. That effectively stole the representation of the states in DC and look where we are at now.
Why would anyone think that those in power would give up that power when there’s a new piece of paper? They blatantly stole their way into power in 2020 and I’ll bet my last donut that this coming election in Nov, when they actually p/u House and Senate seats will hammer it home, FINALLY, that we’re not gonna vote our way out of this much less start playing by some new rules.
@mystaclean:
History tells us that such an agreement may well be ignored. In 1787, delegates went to Philadelphia to modify the Articles of Confederation as was agreed to in advance by the States. In secret, the delegates, under the direction of George Washington, scrapped the AoC in its entirety and replaced it with what we have now.
We could discuss whether or not this was a good thing, but those delegates’ actions were in direct violation of “what was agreed to prior to the convention.”
It’s supported by the majority of residents!?
Of ALL political parties!?
(cue the ominous orchestra)
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DUMB, Dumb, dumb
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Sometimes you might feel that you are in the company of a Jefferson, Hamilton, and others upon this Blessed Land. But, they are serious when there are topics like COS (Convention of States).
Other times you might be confronted by a know-it-all…NOT, like myself.
But, at any rate, you might learn from your fellow brethren (and sisthren???) and maybe add some insight along the way.
Come along. It’s a great learning and patriotic-inspiring ride!