Arkansas Rep. Stephen Meeks: We must act with the faith of our Founders
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December 05, 2019
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Is our nation built on fear or on faith?
Did the Founders succumb to fear when they took on the greatest military in the world? Did our nation cripple under the fear of the Civil War or the threat of Nazi Germany?
Of course not. As their descendants, we shouldn't let fear dictate our actions. As Arkansas Rep. Stephen Meeks explained to his colleagues, there's no reason to fear a Convention of States.
"Our Founding Fathers had faith in their fellow citizens and in Providence that they could establish a new nation in this country based on the principles we see in our Constitution," he said.
"Fear is what is driving people not to support [the Convention of States resolution]. I'm asking you to have faith in our fellow Americans. Because if we can't have faith in our fellow Americans, if they love the Constitution just as much as we do, I would submit that the Constitution's already dead."
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Almost everyone knows that our federal government is on a dangerous course. The unsustainable debt combined with crushing regulations on states and businesses is a recipe for disaster.
What is less known is that the Founders gave state legislatures the power to act as a final check on abuses of power by Washington, DC. Article V of the U.S. Constitution authorizes the state legislatures to call a convention to proposing needed amendments to the Constitution. This process does not require the consent of the federal government in Washington DC.
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