The federal government has grown so large and so powerful that its laws and regulations impact virtually every area of American life. As COS Senior Vice President for Legislative Affairs Rita Peters recently explained to a legislative committee, that hurts those people state officials most want to help.
"Federal overreach hurts your constituents," she said. "Overregulation by unelected bureaucrats hurts small, local businesses and kills jobs."
Why? Because bureaucrats in Washington don't know how to solve the complex, local issues that most deeply affect most Americans.
"We all know the American people are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the job the federal government is doing, and in this day in age, the feds seem to be doing every job. This is not the way our system was ever designed to operate," Peters explained.
Instead, state governments were supposed to craft the majority of policy affecting the daily lives of the American people.
We should be empowering our state officials, but not because they are necessarily most virtuous or responsible. We should be empowering our state legislatures because they are more accountable. As Peters pointed out, constituents can access their state legislators and make their concerns heard. That's not true of our federal officials, and that inaccessibility makes them unaccountable and dangerous.
That's why it's so important that we call the first-ever Article V Convention of States. A Convention of States is called and controlled by the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments. These amendments can shrink the size, scope, and jurisdiction of the federal government and return that decision-making power to the states and the people.
To join the movement and encourage your state legislators to support the Convention of States option, sign the petition below!
