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:
- It is harmful for the federal government to spend at an unsustainable rate.
- 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.
- 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!