There's been a lot of talk about "democracy" lately, especially from folks on the left side of the aisle.
They argue that since the United States is a democracy, Americans should be horribly upset by the election of President Donald Trump, who failed to secure a majority of the popular vote in the 2016 election.
Our country is not a democracy, of course. As Walter E. Williams explains over at The Daily Signal, the Founders rightly viewed democracy as only one step away from tyranny. When a majority of citizens hold the reins of power, there's nothing to stop them from running roughshod over the rights of the minority.
Still, it is true that the Founders wanted We the People to be the controlling force in the national government. While a republican form of government includes protections for individual liberties, the people -- acting through the states and through Congress -- should have the power to decide the laws under which they live.
If you adhere to this democratic principle, you should be appalled at what the Supreme Court has done to the Constitution.
Rather than operate through the amendment procedures laid out in Article V, the Supreme Court has, in essence, amended the Constitution with dozens of awful decisions over the last 100 years. These decisions have stripped the decision-making power from the states and the people and vested that power in five our of nine non-elected individuals.
The difference between the Constitution-as-written and the Constitution-as-interpreted is shocking, as we outlined in this video:
If you care about empowering the voices of average citizens, you know that this needs to stop. But the Court will never stop legislating from the bench on its own. It must be forced back into its constitutional box, which is exactly what we can do by using the legitimate amendment method descried in Article V.
Article V empowers the states to call a Convention of States for the purpose of proposing constitutional amendments. These amendments can limit the size and scope of the federal government and reverse the last 100 years of judicial activism. These amendments can clarify that if a topic -- whether healthcare or education or the environment -- doesn't appear in the Constitution, the federal government cannot control it.
True democracy is just a step removed from tyranny. But nine non-elected lawyers shouldn't be able to dictate domestic policy for all 50 states. Let's restore that balance between democracy and tyranny by calling the first-ever Article V Convention of States.
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