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Preserve Liberty with a Letter

Are you excited about getting our state to pass the Article V Convention of States resolution and wondering how you can help? 

Here's something you can do. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper. It only takes a few minutes, and it's a great way to spread the word about the last, best chance to preserve liberty in America. 

Need a little help? We have sample letters to editors below that you can use or take inspiration from to write a letter of your own.

Here are a few tips for crafting the perfect letter:

A letter to the editor doesn’t make news—it comments on news. Craft your letter around a current event and try to write your letter as a response to that. A recent example of abuse by the federal government is always a good topic. 

Keep your letter concise. Often, letters to the editor must be within a certain word count. The exact requirements can be found in a statement on the Letter to the Editor section of the paper.

End with a Call to Action. Encourage readers to visit www.conventionofstates.com for more information.

Papers want letters from local writers. Include your name and hometown in your email submission.

Send your letter to the appropriate address. Newspapers often have a specific email address they want folks to send their letters. This will be posted on their website or at the end of the Letters to the Editor section.

Was your letter published? Great! We'd love to see it! Send us a link at info@conventionofstates.com. If it wasn't, send it to a different paper or try sending it again.

Here are examples for you to read through and use what you can for your own letter to the editor. Or you can submit each of these over several weeks as a series of letters. 

Your letter to the editor will spread the word about how we can use our Constitution to save America. Thank you for being a part of the solution!

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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