A recent Pew poll reveals that the majority of Americans
think government threatens their rights and freedoms[1]. Advocates for an Article V Convention of the States
contend the way to fix federal overreach is through new amendments to the
Constitution that would "further limit the federal government's power and jurisdiction".
The flaw in that argument is it does not address the real
problem, which is: the federal government has seized the position of being the
exclusive and final judge of the powers delegated to itself.
If all three branches of the federal government were made to
abide by the Constitution as written and intended, it would be far smaller, infinitely
less intrusive and burdensome.
Therefore, the solution to federal overreach is not new amendments that
the Supreme Court, Congress and the President can ignore or turn upside down at
will; the solution is for the states to restrain the federal government to its
existing constitutional bounds. That can
only be achieved when the people and the states, as their agents, reassert the
right to be the final judge of the powers they delegated to their creation and
servant, the federal government.
Brushing aside the obvious problem and equally obvious
remedy, Convention of the States advocates redirect our attention to questions
about Article V convention processes such as:
Can convention delegates be limited to addressing specific
subjects?
Can Congress take control of the convention?
What happens if the convention proposes amendments the
states didn't authorize?
Notice, all of these diversionary issues ignore the real
problem and assume new amendments are the solution.
The real solution is for the people to keep insisting that
their state governments say NO to unconstitutional acts.
Some states are already standing up against unconstitutional
federal acts. For example:
Georgia refused to set up state exchanges or assist in any
other way with Obamacare implementation
Twenty-six states are ignoring federal laws criminalizing
cannabis
Missouri just adopted a state constitutional amendment that
forbids federal infringement on Missourian's 2nd Amendment
rights
All across the country states are resisting unconstitutional
federal acts, regulations and decrees.
The more citizens demand that their state elected officials assert their
9th and 10th Amendment reserved powers, the sooner federalism and the rule of
law will be restored. That is the rightful
remedy for federal tyranny.
http://www.people-press.org/2013/01/31/majority-says-the-federal-government-threatens-their-personal-rights/
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