Facts first: Debunking the claims that COS plans a Constitution rewrite favoring the rich

“We don’t need or want dark money billionaires to rewrite our Constitution,” tweeted one account on X, attached to an anti-COS donation campaign sponsored by Common Cause. The link directs back to easily debunked misinformation about Convention of States, but we couldn’t agree with that initial statement more — we don’t want billionaires rewriting our Constitution, either, thank you very much.

The ad goes on to imply, however, that that is exactly what Convention of States is “trying to do,” namely, “rewrite parts of our founding document to favor the rich.”

Of all the proposals we’ve considered — term limits, fiscal restraints, checks and balances on federal power — it’s unclear which ones, exactly, would slant our constitutional processes in favor of the rich. Nevertheless, it makes for an effective talking point.   

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In reality, Convention of States is backed by millions of everyday Americans who feel powerless, disenfranchised, and disillusioned with politics as usual in Washington, helpless to alleviate the burden the system has placed on them. Early American statesmen, including George Mason, the father of the Article V convention process, feared that the federal system of government would one day devolve into a “corrupt, tyrannical aristocracy” in which average, poor, vulnerable Americans’ rights would be trampled on. No doubt, we are living in such an aristocracy today — and in such a time as this, we must utilize their weapon of last resort.

Presciently, the Article V convention process was designed and unanimously ratified by the Framers to give the American people a voice should the national government ever become oppressive or out-of-touch. In many ways, ours is both. Thankfully, we have Article V to correct course and reorient Washington around the nation’s true bosses — we the people.

For generations, the poor and middle class in America, on both sides of the aisle, have had to bear the brunt of D.C.’s out-of-control ways. For example, just this week, the national debt topped $100,000 per citizen, an unforgiving burden future generations will have to pay off. But, through an Article V convention, we could finally begin to roll back our massive federal deficit and crack down on reckless government spending.

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Contrary to Common Cause’s misguided claim, these much-needed reforms would not rewrite the Constitution primarily to “favor the rich” but rather empower the “little guy” through the powers granted him in the Constitution.

Ironically, organizations that oppose COS, including the George Soros-funded Common Cause, are trying to stop us for precisely that reason — because they know we pose a threat to the corrupt, entrenched D.C. establishment. Don’t fall for their lies. George Mason’s remarks at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 leave no doubt that the Founders gave us Article V to resist federal tyranny. It’s high time that we used it.

To add your name to the list of millions of Americans in every state that support this grassroots solution, sign the petition below and get involved today.

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