Are You A New Volunteer For The Convention of States?

Welcome New Volunteer

Here's where you learn to soar with COS.

Sign in to CB or Confirm your COS Account if you still need to do so.

1. First and foremost, please, always protect our nonprofit status. We are constantly being attacked by those who would like a good excuse to take us down. Learn how to act within the rules when representing COS.

2. Be sure to explore the full COSaction website, there are many resources throughout that offer information about Article V, the Convention of States, the experts, the support, the opposition, and more.

3. Download the COSAction app for iPhone or Android to keep up with the news. The COSAction app will be used for Telepatriot surges.

4. Listen to the podcast, COS Live!, & The Battle Cry.

5. Catch up on passed COS @ Home recordings.

6. Review this guide to common COS tools used by COS volunteers.

7. Looking for a particular volunteer or whoever volunteers for a particular role (maybe your role?) in another state? Use the Leaders Directory to connect with them.

8. How to connect to SLACK, our team communication tool.

a. Introduction to Slack Video

9. Getting started. All Volunteers Introductory Classes.

10. The Convention of States University

Helpful Links

Article V	State-level Leaders can get business cards here (reimbursable). All others can optionally order COS business cards at their own expense
The Case for an Article V	District Captains can find print materials here and can contact a state events coordinator for assistance
Why do we want to call a Convention of States	You can find a super handy Citizen ToolKit here?
A Solution as BIG as the Problem	Learn about various volunteer roles
The Lamp of Experience	Share this video to support youth signups in Young Americans Coalition
How the Courts Have Clarified the Constitution’s Amendment Process	Reference Guides
The Myth of a Runaway Amendment Convention	COS acronyms
Already Adopted A Balance Budget	Short Answers to Common Questions
Common Sense, Not Common Core	Real Answers to Article V
Article V and the Absurdity of Inaction	Frequently Asked Questions
Time to Evict the Squatters	Copy of Legal Agreement we send to all volunteers (do not forward, this is for info only)
Address State Budget Challenges
Demystifying a Dusty Tool	Onboarding Manual
Corrupting Influence	Action Report Categories
Necessary Proper Clause	Order Handout Materials
Article V Process	Washington Is Broken
Campaign Against Article V	Military
Proposed Rules	2A Gun Rights
CRS Response	Social Media Card
It Was Not A Runaway Convention	Pocket Constitutions (English & Spanish available)
The States Control The Convention Process	Opposition
What If Congress Refuses?	230 Organizations Against COS
The Articles Of Convention Of States	Answering Huldah
	Response to the National Association for Gun Rights
YouTube: LA Introduction to Slack Video

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare.

As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D.

Family Physician Newport Beach, CA

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

The treatment is also clear.