Inside the secretive campaign by state legislators to pass conservative amendments in 34 states and

[DonViejo]

Give Me Amendments or Give Me Death

Inside the secretive campaign by state legislators to pass conservative amendments in 34 states and rewrite the Constitution.

The newest movement to save the republic began this past Saturday on the grounds of George Washington’s old estate. Shortly before 9 a.m., nearly 100 state legislators from 32 states filed into the library that sits above the museums of Mount Vernon. It was state legislators only; supporters (and reporters) learned that the hard way, as they called for details or were stopped at the security gates.

Inside, the legislators said a prayer, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and got to work talking about how to form a convention of states that could amend the Constitution–without interference from Congress. They’d been brought to Mount Vernon by a team of five Republican legislators, who’d circulated the invitation back on Oct. 22. “Article V of the U.S. Constitution gives states equal standing with Congress to propose constitutional amendments,” they wrote. “In light of the federal government’s struggle to effectively execute the will of the people,” they’d create a bipartisan and “politically pure” environment to figure this out.

“I started the meeting with a discussion about what authority the convention would have,” recalled Wisconsin Rep. Chris Kapenga, a CPA who was swept into office in the 2010 Tea Party wave. He was one of the five organizers of the meeting, and he emphasized several times that Democrats were in the room. This wasn’t about any partisan goal. It was about states reclaiming the power they’d ceded, through stasis and lack of strategy, to the feds, by getting 34 states to call for a convention.

“We wanted people to understand that the convention itself is a legal authority,” said Kapenga. “Over the last year and a half I've been studying Article V—I went back into the Federalist Papers, read anybody who did anything on constitutional conventions—I saw that hundreds of resolutions have been brought forth, by both parties, and always failed. Reason No. 1: The states are not used to working together. Reason No. 2 was the process. So, we worked on the process.”

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/12/chris_kapenga_mark_levin_and_article_v_the_secret_campaign_to_pass_conservative.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

[TheMastersNemesis]

1. GOP/Oligarch Plan To Call Constitutional Convention Just As Suspected.

Now it is obvious why the oligarchs and GOP want to get control of the states. They don't want a government of the people.

[ancianita]

2. Alarming. Could this withstand SCOTUS scrutiny? What would be the AG's response to such activity?

[Pakid]

3. I think that the day when we can not elect our senators is the day we stop paying taxes

and take to the streets and not stop until we have taken out nation back from the rich SOB who want it all for themselves. They already own most of the Senate but this will give them the power to buy the US Senate out right and end our ability to have any chance of living even a half-ways decent life. You can kiss SS and Medicare/Medicaid and anything that might help us goodbye and the rich will make sure that we pay for everything while they pay for nothing I know it close to that now but it can get worse.