DANGER! Article 5 Convention of States

       Both Conservatives and Liberals are supporting an Article 5 Conversion of States to amend the Constitution. This is VERY DANGEROUS. Many people are unset by the corruption in Washington are falling for this trap. This convention idea was started by the Democrat Socialists and carried on by Conservative Republicans. One supporter is Rand Paul. It makes me wonder if he is a RINO in disguise like Mitt Romney was at one time before he marched in a Communist Black Lives Matter parade, and attacked Trump.

       It is also supported by ads on NewsMax.

       The Socialist Democrats ignore the Constitution the rule of law, replacing it with lynch mob rule controlled by propaganda from Fake News and Fake Science. So would they obey new laws? What we need to do is ENFORCE the law with severe penalties!

 

        Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s said: “I certainly would not want a constitutional convention. Whoa! Who knows what would come out of it?”

https://www.cato.org/commentary/article-v-constitutional-convention-wrong-idea-wrong-time

       “On the left, a group founded by liberal TV host Cenk Uygur is pushing a convention aimed at overturning the Supreme Court’s hated Citizens United decision and declaring that from now on corporations should stop having rights, or at least not a right to spend money spreading political opinions. Four liberal states—California, Vermont, Illinois, and New Jersey—have signed on to this idea.”

https://www.commoncause.org/resource/u-s-constitution-threatened-as-article-v-convention-movement-nears-success/

U.S. Constitution Threatened as Article V Convention Movement Nears Success

       “A well-funded, highly coordinated national effort is underway to call a constitutional convention, under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, for the first time in history. The result of such a convention could be a complete overhaul of the Constitution and supporters of the convention are dangerously close to succeeding. With special interest groups gaining more momentum, conservative advocates are just six states short of reaching the constitutionally-required 34-state goal. They are targeting Republican-controlled legislatures in 2021 and are within striking distance.

The unknowns surrounding a constitutional convention pose an unacceptable risk, particularly in the current polarized political climate. Given how close calling a new convention is, it’s time to spotlight that risk and sound an alarm for the preservation of our Constitution.

Too few Americans are even aware that a constitutional convention can be called, let alone that there would be no checks on its scope and further that the process to call one is well underway and being underwritten by some of the nation’s richest individuals.”

       https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/380467-a-convention-of-states-is-the-last-thing-america-needs-right-now?rl=1

       “One group seeking a convention in the hope that it would produce a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution claims — using highly dubious math — to have resolutions from 28 of the 34 states required to compel Congress to call such a convention. Another group, the Convention of States Project (COSP), seeks more broadly to strip the federal government of power. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is supporting this effort.  

       A liberal group, Wolf PAC, has persuaded a handful of blue states (Socialist Democrat run) to request an Article V convention with the hope that it will reform campaign finance law.  

       Much of the opposition to calling an Article V convention results from the danger that such a convention could veer in dangerous and unpredictable directions, especially in this toxic political atmosphere.  Recognizing these concerns    about a runaway Article V convention, COSP and ALEC have urged states to pass laws purporting to direct delegates how to vote and providing for those delegates’ recall should the delegates disobey the legislature’s instructions constraining how their delegates could vote. These bills are a sham that do nothing to reduce the dangers of calling an Article V convention.

       Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides two methods of adopting amendments.  First, Congress may, by a two-thirds majority in both houses, propose amendments to the states. Second, if two-thirds of the states ask Congress to call a constitutional convention, Congress must do so. Every amendment to date has been proposed and ratified through the first method. These groups are seeking to persuade state legislatures to take the country into the uncharted territory of an Article V convention.

       Nothing in Article V, or anywhere else in the Constitution, authorizes Congress, state legislatures, or anyone else to limit the agenda of an Article V convention. And even if they did, the Supreme Court has made clear that the process of amending the Constitution is a “political question” into which the courts would not intervene. Once the delegates convene, they are answerable only to themselves. The product that emerges from an Article V convention could be radically different from what those asking it to be called may have envisioned, just as the Philadelphia convention of 1787 departed sharply from its mandate to propose amendments to the Articles of Confederation.”