POLL: Should we pursue a Convention of States in this political climate?

Last updated on: November 18, 2016 at 10:06 am by Mark Meckler

POLL: Should we pursue a Convention of States in this political climate? 2016-11-18T10:06:43-06:00 Mark Meckler

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JD Rucker, over at RedState, has a provocative idea:

A week before the election, I had a mini-debate with someone who held a perspective opposite of mine on initiating an Article V Convention of States to establish amendments in the Constitution. For the sake of the poll, I won’t express which side I was on, but my basis to end the debate was to say that it hasn’t happened in over 200 years and isn’t likely to happen any time soon.

That was before the election.

The rise of GOP-controlled legislatures has forced me to eat those words. While still unlikely, we’ve never been closer to actually seeing it happen in our lifetimes. The question needs to be asked: Now that we can, should we?

He put together a quick — of course unscientific — Twitter poll to guage the interest of “we the people.”

With a GOP majority in nearly enough state legislatures to push an Article V Convention of States, should we pursue it? cc: @COSProject

— Federalist Party (@Federalists_USA) November 18, 2016

I guess you don’t have to guess what my vote was. This, of course, is exactly what we’ve been promoting for many years — and not just promoting, but implementing.

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights have a system of checks and balances to prevent the government from infringing our individual liberties. It hasn’t worked out that way. Today, our so-called political leaders have taken the power away from the people, and we need to do something about it.

Instead of states controlling things that affect them directly, like healthcare and education, the federal government has usurped with mandates of its own. It does this by imposing various taxes on the states as a means of coercing them into following directives issued from Washington D.C. It works a bit like a hostage situation: give into our demands or face the consequences.

It’s time to take that power back.

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