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"Not Republican or Democratic": Three points of unity to bring us all together

Published in Blog on July 21, 2020 by Article V Patriot

The goals of the Convention of States Project are truly non-partisan.

While many of our supporters and leaders hail from one side of the aisle, Americans from all political parties can get behind the kinds of constitutional amendments called for under our resolution.

That's what National Legislative Strategist Rita Dunaway explained during a recent committee hearing in Maryland. 

Our goals are informed by three points of unity among the American people:

  1. It is harmful for the federal government to spend at an unsustainable rate.
  2. It is good for all citizens, not just wealthy special interests, to have an opportunity to impact the laws that will govern them. It is wrong for a President to use executive orders to bypass the people's representatives.
  3. It is good for new, younger candidates to have a fair chance to represent their communities. 

Under the Convention of States Resolution, delegates to the convention can propose amendments that impose fiscal restraints on Congress to rein in out-of-control spending (point of unity #1).

They can propose amendments that limit the power of the federal government and return that power to the states, where average citizens have a chance to influence the law (points of unity #2).

And they can propose amendments that limit the terms of office for federal officials (point of unity #3). 

There are still goals and values Americans agree on, and with a Convention of States, we can turn those goals into realities. Sign the Convention of States Petition below to get involved!

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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: https://conventionofstates.com/handbook_pdf

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