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March 02, 2020
by
Keith Bessette
I recently attended an event hosted by the Cato Institute in Vero Beach, Florida. It was about liberty and the problems we face from D.C's desire to control our lives.
Do you agree with the problems recognized in this quote?
“Washington has become a perpetual motion machine.”
D.C. keeps getting bigger. A simple representation of how big the central government is getting is the amount of money D.C. spends. This goes up, regardless of who holds the power.
Both major parties evidently favor big government and big spending (they just quibble over where to spend the trillions of dollars they take and borrow each year). One person is unlikely to stop an expansion problem that has festered for a century.
“There has never been a country with personal liberty that did not also have economic liberty.”
Most D.C. politicians appear unaware of this. Most don't want liberty for the people. They want more centralized power. Debates of authoritarians fighting over who would take more away from one group to dole out to another group are scary.
“There are more protests in front of the Supreme Court than in front of Congress.”
Protesting the Supreme Court is a sign of far too much power in the judiciary. It is a sign of a weak, bickering, ineffective Congress. This shows the House is not doing their job of representing the people, and that the Senate is not doing their job representing the states.
We need constitutionality in D.C. We need a government that protects both our economic liberty and our personal liberty, as the Founders intended.
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Almost everyone knows that our federal government is on a dangerous course. The unsustainable debt combined with crushing regulations on states and businesses is a recipe for disaster.
What is less known is that the Founders gave state legislatures the power to act as a final check on abuses of power by Washington, DC. Article V of the U.S. Constitution authorizes the state legislatures to call a convention to proposing needed amendments to the Constitution. This process does not require the consent of the federal government in Washington DC.
I support Convention of States; a national movement to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution, restricted to proposing amendments that will impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit its power and jurisdiction, and impose term limits on its officials and members of Congress.
I want our state to be one of the necessary 34 states to pass a resolution calling for this kind of an Article V convention. You can find a copy of the model resolution and the Article V Pocket Guide (which explains the process and answers many questions) here:
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Thank you so much for your service to the people of our district.
Respectfully, [Your Name]
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