Almost immediately after the colossal rebuke of radical progressivism, conservative pundits were urging quick action of the new administration to fulfill the mandate the country had given it. We can expect remarkable pragmatic federal government action after January 20, 2025.
But will the upcoming changes of the new administration be enough? Will it pare back on bureaucracy and excessive spending? How will the changes be made permanent so they do not unravel under a different administration?
We can be sure the progressive left, globalists, Communists, and whatever other name the evil forces have will NEVER stop. Several have clearly spoken about continuing their fight. They simply cannot stop hating American exceptionalism, God-given liberty, and our free market economy.
With the gloomy oppression of hard leftism still on the minds of the American people, the time is now for this country to use every tool in its arsenal to continue its hard push against totalitarianism that will forever threaten this country.
A convention of the states under the authority of Article V of the US Constitution is the most powerful of these tools.
Our government is badly skewed from the separation of powers our Founders wanted. Nearly every aspect of the Constitution has been twisted and misused to obtain power by one interest or another.
Result: the relationship between federal and state governments has been tilted almost entirely to the federal. Consequently, the states need desperately to get together to take back their rightful powers.
Now more than ever, the grassroots army of Convention of States activists must also be contacting our state legislators, gathering a larger group of patriotic volunteers, and vigorously propelling forward our cause for strengthening state sovereignty by way of liberty amendments that:
- Impose fiscal restraints on the federal government,
- Limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government,
- Impart term limits on Congress and federal officials.
What Types of Amendments Should Be Proposed Immediately?
Since Congress has had the opportunity to propose amendments via Article V any day of the week but stood by while our nation was brought to the brink of ideological destruction, our faith must be in the ambition of the states to flex their collective muscle to restore the Constitution and their own sovereignty.
Having just imagined the ramifications of a radical, far-left candidate a stone’s throw from the presidency, one would expect the states to be highly motivated to act now to address the vulnerabilities of the age:
- Limiting Supreme Court justices to nine members of the court.
- Preventing the federal government from adding states without the affirmative consent of three quarters of the existing states.
- Imparting term limits for Congress and federal offices.
- Limiting federal bureaucracy by way of expiration, review, and Congressional reauthorization.
- Reducing the use Executive Orders and federal regulations to enact laws.
- Allowing the states by supermajority to abrogate any law or regulation passed in any branch of government including executive orders and Supreme Court decisions.
- Balancing the budget, including limitations on taxes and spending. These must go together, not just a balanced budget alone.
- Imposing Generally Accepted Accounting Principles on Congress (GAAP).
- Paring back government spending and bureaucracy. The spending of tax dollars must be once again initiated by the House, and not by Presidential whim or bureaucratic mandates put forth by unelected government employees.
- Imposing a single subject amendment – one subject per bill in Congress.
- Prohibiting the use of international treaties and law to govern the domestic law of the United States.
- Placing an upper limit on federal taxation.
- Forcing Congress to vote on regulations instead of deferring law making to regulators.
Congress Did Not Do its Job
Congress had plenty of chances and it has not acted in the best interest of the states. It is imperative that the above amendments be proposed now in a state amending convention, and ultimately be considered for passage.
The states' application of Article V is the ideal companion to an incoming presidential administration that at least appears to recognize the need to reduce government waste and to set term limits on Congress.
Fifteen states to go to hold a convention. Let's. Get. It Done.
Learn more about Article V of the US Constitution, the solution as big as the problem. Consider signing our petition and joining the Convention of States grassroots army working to reduce the size and scope of the federal government: www.ConventionofStates.com.
