Convention of States - Is It Time? was a recent topic on “Mark and the Millennials,” a weekly podcast that focuses on issues facing conservative millennials, a courageous demographic facing unprecedented challenges in an increasingly intolerant society.
The show’s host Mark Fisher met with millennials Christopher Hopkins and Adam Katura to discuss Article V of the Constitution, along with two non-millennials, Stephen Patten and Matthew Rehberg from COS Action Maryland.
Fisher’s podcast covered a range of issues, including the two methods for amending the Constitution defined in Article V, how to launch a Convention of States, and the primary areas of focus for the proposed Convention of States: term limits, federal fiscal responsibility, and overreach by the administrative state.
Mark Fisher (c), Host of Mark and the Millennials, recently invited Stephen Patten (l) and Matthew Rehberg, both COS Maryland volunteers, on the podcast to discuss current political events and the COS movement.
The guests also dispelled some of the myths surrounding a Convention of States, such as the unfounded fear of a “runaway convention.”
Maryland’s Matthew Rehberg noted that while the Constitution is arguably the greatest political document ever written, nothing is perfect, so the Framers wisely included mechanisms for amending it.
While this has been done 27 times by the traditional method, Rehberg says, “I think the Framers intended us to use the other clause [which includes the power to call a Convention of States] just as often.”
Stephen Patten, who heads COS Maryland, concluded the discussion with advice from Founder John Jay, who went on to become the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: “Every member of the State ought diligently to read and to study the constitution of his country, and teach the rising generation to be free.”
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