This week's shocking revelation that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley may have committed treason during the Trump administration rightly horrified everyday Americans from both sides of the aisle.
The thought that one of our top military leaders would warn a foreign enemy before an attack is disgusting, and congressional leaders have called for his firing, resignation, or prosecution.
But it's also prompted another question: how do we rein in the out-of-control Deep State in Washington, D.C?
The Deep State isn't a conspiracy theory. It's the simple fact that our country is run by a permanent, entrenched bureaucratic class that isn't accountable to We the People. These men and women aren't elected, and yet they have the power to make laws, make war, and otherwise dictate the direction of our country.
New administrations could clean house every four or eight years. Then the bureaucracy would reflect the will of the American people, but it could also lead to dangerous instability. There is a good argument for some continuity among the bureaucratic class, and presidents would be doing little else if they had to fire and hire thousands of people during their administration.
We don't have a people problem in D.C. -- at least, not one we can solve. Politicians and bureaucrats will always be corrupt and selfish, and they'll always seek their own good above that of the country.
The solution isn't to install new bureaucrats or new politicians. The solution is to place real limits on their power, and we can do that with an Article V Convention of States.
A Convention of States is called and controlled by the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments that limit the jurisdiction of the federal government. What does this mean? Here's one example.
Nowhere in the Constitution does the federal government have the power to make education policy. Amendments could be written that expressly prohibit Washington from making policy on anything under state control. Since states control their educational systems, the federal government could no longer do anything within that sphere. Overnight, the Department of Education would be disbanded, and American parents would no longer have to worry about Marxism, socialism, or racism being taught in schools nationwide.
That's just one example. Amendments proposed at a Convention of States could shrink or eliminate a wide variety of other federal agencies. With these amendments in place, the Deep State would have far less control over our lives, and We the People would once again be able to control the laws under which we live.
Mark Milley is just the symptom of a much larger disease. A Convention of States is the only permanent cure, and it's time we administered it. Sign the petition below to join the movement!
