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Responses to Objections

We've heard all the opposition arguments--many times. And they all have answers. Here they are from some of our experts, in short video clips.

Opposition Argument 1: We've only had one constitutional convention, and it was a runaway. The Article V Convention isn't a safe process.

Response by Michael Farris, Esq.

Opposition Argument 2: There’s no way to control a modern-day Article V Convention. They might throw out parts of the Bill of Rights or draft a whole new Constitution.

Response by Mark Meckler, Esq. 

Opposition Argument 3: A Convention is a bad idea, because Congress will just take over it. Congress will choose the delegates, set the agenda, and make the rules.

Response by The Honorable Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator

Opposition Argument 4: The whole problem is that the federal government doesn’t obey the Constitution, so why should we think that changing it will fix anything?

Response by Rita M. Peters, Esq.

Opposition Argument 5: We have no idea how a Convention would work, because Article V doesn’t tell us. 

Response by Rick Green, America's Constitution Coach

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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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