“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
—Patrick Henry
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
—Thomas Jefferson
Such were the opinions of our founding fathers, 200+ years ago, after careful consideration of the multitudes of abuses inflicted onto the common man by ever-hungry centralized government machines.
Like an indignant child raised by an abusive drunkard, they set out to correct the errors of theirs and history’s fathers, vowing, at least for themselves, to never repeat the same mistakes. Thus, the US Constitution was penned and America, the land of the free, was born.
Fast forward 200+ years. And we once again see the teeth of an ever-hungry centralized government, grinding the people within its sprockets. We feel every bite as the DC machine churns like cud, their masters into their servants.
We see our US Supreme Court being used in a partisan fashion, to twist and interpret our US Constitution far distant from the spirit of which it was written, to meet the self-serving political ends of their appointors. Such is a theft of the freedoms and the rights of the American People for which this Constitution was created. A people initially set on a sound foundation, of right mind and moral ground, now sinking under the boot of tyranny.
“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
—James Madison
We are witnessing members of our own Congress cry out for the abolishment of law and order, our police, our borders and our border patrol officers, leaving our own citizens inundated and overwhelmed to fend for themselves against armed and deadly criminals, surges of which they themselves (Congress members) have invited and created.
We are witnessing members of our own Congress give preference to known human rights violators across the sea, creating policies that take our citizens’ jobs away, literally handing them over to such adversaries, leaving our citizens unemployed unable to feed their families.
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts.”
—Abraham Lincoln
Our founding fathers knew the inclinations of man. They were well versed in history and even by personal experience. They knew, the day would come, even with their self-explanatory Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, that man would somehow once again come to obfuscate the rights of the common man to take them to himself. Thus overlording their power and control over aspects of their community and personal lives that were not intended for them (federal government) to harness. With wise anticipatory grievance, Article V, and the Convention of States, was born, cemented into that founding, freedom preserving, document. Although we may entertain that we should never have to use it, our Founding Fathers, who bore our Constitution for us, knew better.
I stand with our Founding Fathers, and their Article V, Convention of States, that allows for the creation of Constitutional Amendments when prudence presents the overbearing need at the same time as overwhelming support of the moral states.
I support a Convention of States under Article V, for the sole limited purpose of proposing amendments that will reduce the inflated power of our federal government. Amendments that will, in effect, limit its broad overreach and thus the abuses of power being meted out by her three branches, bestowing them back to the states, closer to the homes of the people they represent, where they belong.
Article V
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
