In order to call an Article V Convention of States, we are going to have to get the support of some states like New York, New Jersey, and California.
That means that we must solicit the support of the legislators those states. Getting the support of those legislators will depend on how well we are able to gain supporters of Convention of States.
Please ask your friends and family you may have in states outside of Florida who have not passed our Article V resolution to sign the petition and actively solicit their state legislators’ support.
If some of your friends and family object to calling a convention, please remind them that our resolution contains language that restricts the scope of the convention. It only takes 13 states to reject any proposal.
Below you will find a quick refresher on the goals of the Convention of States movement.
Bob Favarato
District Captain, District 23
Convention of States Florida
A SYNOPSIS OF CONVENTION OF STATES GOALS
Reader,
This is a review of Mark Levin’s book, The Liberty Amendments.
It was written by an Amazon reviewer. The review will give you a synopsis of what Convention of States is all about. I have added a comment, about my pet issue, in the body of the report regarding the importance of repealing the Seventeenth Amendment. Please read the review as it will synthesize the issues for you and give you an understanding about why this project is so important.
By
Joanna Daneman
Verified Purchase
This review is from: The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic (Hardcover)
Mark Levin is a radio host and a Constitutional scholar. Invoking Article V of the Constitution, which sets out methods for amendments, Levin has proposed a number of changes to term limits, taxation, restoring states' power and more.
Currently, states' powers have been almost completely overruled by Federal laws and mandates, debt is out of control, stretching past two generations of American's ability to pay it off. Government spending is a significant proportion of GDP and the GDP itself is stagnating; is this caused by the heavy burden of non-productive government spending?
Government regulation has even gone so far as to dictate what kind of light bulb can be manufactured and sold and choices in healthcare may soon be dictated by unelected bureaucrats. For those who think that this kind of centralized power is dangerous and even tyrannical, Levin's amendments seek to address the power that the Federal government has arrogated unto itself, a power that never was the original intent of the Founding Fathers and which reduces individual liberty significantly.
Levin's amendments include:
1. Term limits, including for justices.
2. Repealing Amendment 17 and returning the election of senators to state legislatures (Favarato’s comment: This has the benefit of returning the authority of how Senators vote to the State Legislatures because originally, the states appointed the senator from their state thus returning control of the US Senate to the several states so they can protect themselves from a tyrannical federal government. An interesting side benefit is that it cuts the influence of lobbyists by half. Can you envision a lobbyist trying to visit the several members of a state legislature to influence the vote of a Senator on an issue?)
3. A congressional supermajority to override Supreme Court decisions (overruling what could be a stacked court)
4. Spending limit based on GDP
5. Taxation capped at 15%
6. Limiting the commerce clause, and strengthening private property rights
7. Power of states to override a federal statute by a three-fifths vote.
These ideas will be opposed by those who favor central planning and a very powerful federal government, who believe that a few should decide the fate of many, who like the current system and the way it's headed. It will also be ignored by those who think that there is too much inertia to oppose the direction we're headed.
It's true there are powerful forces at work fundamentally transforming the nation, but it's also true that there is a plurality of opinion throughout the US. For those who wonder how we've gotten to where we are presently, and how we might restore personal liberty and more localized government, where we have MORE of a say, not less, this is a very important book and worth reading and discussing.
