Among the Framers of our Constitution, there was no opposition in providing for a convention of states and to propose Amendments to the United States Constitution which they laboriously crafted.
There are Christian and conservative Americans concerned about “the possible dangers” of a convention of states. There are forces aligned against a convention of states who prey upon those fears, warning of the possibility of “a runaway convention” where our US Constitution would be in jeopardy.
We are in a daily “battle for our Constitution” where our Constitution is continually assaulted by the President, the Supreme Court, and even our Congress. Members of each of these three branches have sworn an oath to defend our Constitution, but often they violate that oath. The threat to our Constitution does not lie in having an Article V convention of states, but rather in not having one.
From May 25th until September 17th of 1787, many issues were proposed and hotly debated. History records almost no issue that did not have strong vocal supporters and opponents, yet on September 15th, only two days before the close of the Constitutional Convention, concerns about Article V were again brought to the floor .
James Madison, early in the Constitutional Convention, had raised the idea of allowing the states to propose amendments to the Constitution, however the idea had become lost due to other areas that required compromise. George Mason, on 9/15/1787, again brought up the idea of states calling a convention to propose amendments to the Constitution.
What most historians find interesting is that the convention of delegates, in the Constitutional Convention, those scholarly men that produced this fabulous document, unanimously agreed without debate to add the provision for States to call a convention to propose amendments, just 2 days before the close of the Constitutional Convention.
From 1789 through January 3, 2019, there have been approximately 11,770 measures that have been proposed to amend the United States Constitution, yet only 27 have been adopted. I don’t believe that the Article V amendment process is dangerous, whether by Congress or the states. It is the policies with the force of law enacted by executive decree, bureaucratic regulation which have the force of law, and judicial fiat that has undermined the liberty of the American citizen.
It may be interesting to know how many proposals, during the 1787 Constitutional Convention or thereafter, have been adopted by a deliberative body with a unanimous vote and without debate. Most would guess that that number is low.
You may wonder about the opening statement. That statement is to provoke you to question: If the framers of our Constitution were so completely in favor of providing for a convention of states option for proposing amendments, why should anyone be skeptical?
I believe that we NEED a Convention of States.
Sign our petition at http://conventionofstates.com/
May God Bless You,
Dave
