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Convention of States Action

The Liberty Llama needs your help!

The Declaration of Independence begins with "We the People". We need YOU to help get our Federal Government under control. 

The Convention of States is an effort to use a tool the founders provided in Article V of the U.S. Constitution. It provides a way for "We the People", through our state legislatures, to call for a convention of the states to by-pass Congress and propose amendments that Congress will never do on their own.

The process requires 34 state legislatures to pass the COS resolution. The resolution defines what topics can be discussed at the convention.

19 states have passed this resolution that allows debate on amendments for limiting the terms of office for federal officials, imposing fiscal sanity and restricting the power and scope of the federal government.

There would likely be multiple amendments proposed in each category, and all proposed amendments must then be sent to the states for ratification. 38 states must ratify every proposed amendment before they can become effective. 

In North Carolina, HJR 235 passed the North Carolina House in March 2023 and we are now in the Senate. The Senate still has the chance to pass HJR 235 before the end of 2024 and make North Carolina the 20th state to do so. But we need you to act!

What you can do:

  • Become educated on the COS effort and sign the petition if you have not done so.
  • Consider becoming a volunteer and get engaged. No matter what your skills are or how much time you have, we have a way for you to help!
  • Contact your North Carolina legislator, and especially your Senator. Here is a link where you can enter your address and get the contact information for both your NC Representative and Senator. Ask them to support HJR 235 and get it to the Senate floor for a vote before the end of 2024. 

Many believe that the election of Donald Trump will solve all our problems. It will not. Electing good people to the federal government is necessary but not sufficient.

Our effort transcends any one president or Congress, but is focused on long-term, structural changes to change the course of history and protect our federal republican form of government. Too much power has flowed to the federal government.

It is time to bring that power back to We the People in the states. You can help! 

Click here to get involved!

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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