The Founders foresaw a time when the States would need to have the ability to amend the Constitution because of the overreach by the federal government was creating the Tyranny our forefathers fought to valiantly to stop. And I believe that is what we are experiencing today.
I support an Article V Convention of the States because it is clear that the Federal government is far exceeding its’ intended authority as written in the US Constitution. Our country was founded as a Democratic Republic with clear separation of powers. The States created the Federal Government not the other way around. With that in mind most rights are reserved to the states, but over time those have increasingly been taken away in the form of:
- A Federal Deficit which now exceeds 36 trillion dollars, with no end in sight of our Federal Government reigning in its’ irresponsible fiscal policies.
- Career Politicians that no longer represent their constituents but put their own interests first.
- Federal Mandates requiring vaccinations, lockdowns, loss of livelihood of employees if they don’t comply and many other examples of states’ rights being compromised.
People say that a Convention of States will produce a runaway convention. I would argue that over the past 200 plus years when Congress proposed the 27 Amendments to the US Constitution, they used a similar process as would be used when the States make application to have an Article V Convention of the States to propose an Amendment to the US Constitution.
If the logic of a runaway convention is to be believed, then we trust our state legislatures less than we trust the people we elected to represent us in Washington D.C.
The greater fear I have is that by not calling for a Convention of States to propose amendments to the Constitution to reign in our out-of-control federal government we will lose the Liberty our forefathers fought so valiantly to preserve and give us.
