The purpose of having a Convention of States is not to force
a balanced budget on the federal government.
The real goal is to pass an entirely new constitution for the U.S. Here’s
a little more background on the Newstates Constitution. This is a review on Amazon for the book.
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The Emerging Constitution is an excellent book, written over 40 years ago, by former New Dealer, Professor Rexford
Tugwell. He, Professor Tugwell, favors a new U.S. Constitution--The Newstates
Constitution!!
Professor Tugwell was one of President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's "brain trust" that was "created" to end the two
Great Depressions-- the Hoover Depression of 1929-1932, and the equally severe
ROOSEVELT DEPRESSION of 1937-1939.
Tugwell was one who called for, in 1936, for the end of
State governments, and instead favored a UNITARY national
governmental structure, including GUN CONTROL, and a disarmed populace. ALSO: Tugwell
favored the a "United States Police Force" to handle ALL local crime,
thus over-riding the powers of local State, County, and City police forces.
The Book Review, that I am writing about--'The Emerging Constitution'
is prophetic as we have seen the rise, under both Democratic and Republican
Presidents, of the IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY!!
Looking at Tugwell's book-- "The Emerging
Constitution": Tugwell favor a President, popularly-elected for a 9-Year
Term, AND with no term limits. This new "strong-man" President would
appoint 75% of the U.S. Senate for his/her 9-year term. (Sounds like the 2008
new Constitution of Myanmar (Burma))
There would be fewer bureaucracies, but there would be SIX,
not just three, BRANCHES of the Federal government.
A. The Executive Branch--'The Presidency'. In effect, a
tightly- controlling Super-President
B. The Legislative Branch--the Presidentially-appointed
Senate, and a House of Representatives made up 400-600 Congresspersons elected
AT LARGE--by a controlled popular-electorate—whose qualifications to vote and
run for Office, would be controlled by a National Court of Rights and
Responsibilities, and 10-15 Regional Newstates Courts of Rights and
Responsibilities. Citizenship Rights would be under constant "review",
also, in terms of participation of a REGULATED voting citizenry, ALSO under
review by "Courts of Rights and Responsibility" on a
citizen-by-citizen "case review".
As was stated earlier in this book review, the President--
actually the new and more powerful Super-President would
APPOINT 75% of the United States Senate--FOR LIFE--without a popular vote, and
the Super-President would have the power to hire-and-fire members of this new
Presidentially-controlled Senate.
C. The Judicial Branch, with a Super-Chief Justice with
"special powers". The Chief-Principle or Super-Chief Justice would
have the Power to Issue Pardons, like the new Super-President, but only after
"consultation" with the Super President. The Super-Chief Justice
could be dismissed without any Congressional "over-sight", by the
National-State Super-President.
D. The Planning Branch---with 3, 6, 9, and 12 year National
Economic Plans---similar to the 4-Year Plan of 1936 Germany, and the now- defunct
Soviet Russian 5, 7, and 10 years plans. The Tugwell proposals are nothing less
than nationally-planned national-state corporatism over businesses,
corporations, and conglomerates.
Unions would be controlled also, to "merge" with
the National-State economic 3, 6, 9, and 12 year plans, similar to fascist and
communist "labor fronts".
E. The Regulatory Branch----A SUPER PLANNING and CONTROL
"agency" working "in concert" with the Planning Branch, on
National-State, Newstates, and Local-County bureaucratic regulations, fulfill the
"goals" of the 3, 6, 9, and 12 year economic plans.
F. The Electoral Branch----TO "supervise" National
and State Elections. National and State political parties would be "under
review" to "determine" if any political party did not measure-up
to national standards of the number of votes earned in any National- State or
Newstates elections.
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In Tugwell's book, there would not be 50 States, but
10-to-13 super-states, called NEWSTATES!! Corporate-Statism to cut
down on 50 small state bureaucracies, to instead be with the National-State
Government in controlling costs through
"consolidation" of State-Power.
Ironically, Venezuela's strong-man "president",
Hugo Chavez is using almost the same schema to create fourteen
Presidentially-appointed "regional vice-presidents" to
"over-ride" the power of Venezuela's 37 State-provinces--which were
ELECTED by the People by Secret Ballot.
This book, Tugwell's 'The Emerging Consitution', that would totally scrap most of the Bill of Rights guaranteed of/by
the present circa-1787 U.S. Constitution, would do so by declaring "states
of national emergencies", and to "temporarily-suspend" the
"rights-granted" under the Newstates Constitution. (The 1866 Ex-Parte
Milligan decision of the U.S. Supreme Court would be "reviewed", and
probably be scapped, as would the safe-guards of Posse Committaus).
The would be "The National Sharing Fund"--if you
will a National Sales Income Tax---1% and 2% on most Individuals and Families, and
5% on the "wealthy"--whatever the Super-President decides, and the
new Super-President could lower and raise taxes WITHOUT going through the new
Super-Congress--by using the powers to declare by himself/herself--
"states of national emergencies", and without
Congressional/Senatorial 'over-sight'.
This book, Tugwell, sounds good to many fed up with
"divided government", but it should warn people that "absolutio
et absolutium est"--or about "absolute power tends to
corrupt-absolutely".
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