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Blade, you took this wrong... I've read it and it is there as a reboot sorta protection... I agree with you...
But Im trying to find what she wrote about it being hijacked and it really threw up Red flags...
You'll understand once I find it and send it to you.
Remember, I want to preserve infrastructure not blow it up...
It's the Bunkers you have to Cook or collapse in not blow up.
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Sorry, Sci, that I misunderstood you. It's just that so many people seem to oppose an Article V convention with no understanding of how it works.
There is no possibility of a "hijacking", or a "runaway convention". and it is NOT a Constitutional Convention. Neither are the state legislatures and their delegations going to repeal, rewrite, or in any way threaten the Bill of Rights.
Read Article V carefully. There are TWO procedures for amending the constitution. Briefly, by federal congress proposal, and through a convention of the state LEGISLATURES.
In congress, 2/3 of BOTH houses propose an amendment/s.
or 2/3 of state legislatures call a convention. (that's 33 states)
In either case, when an amendment/s is finally agreed upon and is officially proposed, it must then be submitted to all 50 state legislatures for ratification. The amendment becomes a part of the constitution if and when 3/4ths of the state legislatures vote for ratification. (38 states)
As we speak, I believe at last count, there are 4 state legislatures who have passed resolutions for a convention and 27 state legislatures discussing and debating. And even more are becoming interested.
Two things must be understood about the Convention of the states for proposing amendment/s. One, Congress can neither hijack the convention, nor can it deny the states permission to proceed, or in any way block it. Second, in 2014, Republicans made historic gains in the nations state legislatures. The GOP now controls 68 out of 98 partisan state legislative chambers -- the highest number in the history of the party. Republicans currently hold the governorship and both houses of the legislature in 23 states, while Democrats have that level of control in only 7.
(Note: Nebraska, with a unicameral legislature, is the missing state in this count. Note also that neither the POTUS nor the governors have any say whatsoever in this procedure.)
I reckon the fundamental question for all of us is: If we agree that our nation is in peril, and if we agree that the majority of those we elected to the federal government have betrayed us, then what recourse is left to us?
As you will learn if you read The Liberty Amendments, the Founders suffered intense debates over what might be a recourse for the states if the federal congress went rogue and the government as a whole became tyrannical. The inclusion in Article V for a convention of the states for proposing amendments was their solution. As things now stand, short of a miracle at the polls, elections will not change the direction we are headed. At best, a favorable election might slow us down, but a complete reversal is a pipe dream. This convention, should it go forward to conclusion, is the last peaceful Constitutional recourse we have. Failing this, the outlook is grim indeed. We either succumb to a dictatorship, or we "go rogue". As a bumper sticker I saw recently put it:
"If our Founders were here today, they'd be shooting by now."