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Republicans are one state away from being able to hold a convention of states

Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:53 pm
Posted by hsfolk
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:53 pm
If they can win one more state house, then they can call for a convention on their own
Posted by CptBengal
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:56 pm to
Before the usual morons show up with the idiutoic talking points lets establish a few things:

1) A convention of the states is NOT a constitutional convention

2) There can NOT be a runaway convention as all products from the CoS has to be then ratified by the requisite number of states.

3) It is legal, and in the Constitution.
Posted by Sentrius
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:57 pm to
Balanced budget amendment

Repeal the 17th

Reinforce the 10th amendment

Overrule the Wickard and Kelo SCOTUS decisions.
Posted by germandawg
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:57 pm to
quote:

If they can win one more state house, then they can call for a convention on their own




they might want to concentrate on getting Washington under wraps first....baby step, baby steps.
Posted by Quidam65
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:57 pm to
But wouldn't they also have to submit a request for a ConCon?

So at this point, which states have and which ones still need to get on board?
Posted by CptBengal
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:58 pm to
quote:


they might want to concentrate on getting Washington under wraps first....baby step, baby steps.




you do realize the CoS is designed to get DC under wraps....by going around them?
Posted by Rebelgator
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:58 pm to
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ConCon



Hope there's a lot of hot Ivanka costumes at ConCon.
Posted by CptBengal
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:58 pm to
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But wouldn't they also have to submit a request for a ConCon?


jesus christ...
Posted by hsfolk
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 8:59 pm to
quote:

they might want to concentrate on getting Washington under wraps first....baby step, baby steps.



so you never want a convention
Posted by hsfolk
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 9:13 pm to
i wonder what's the next possible state Republicans could get?
Posted by LosLobos111
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 9:15 pm to
Please LA
Please LA
Please LA
Posted by hsfolk
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 9:18 pm to
Louisiana 8th States To Pass Article V Convention Of States Application


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In the middle of the week the Louisiana state House approved, in a 62-36 vote, becoming the 8th state to sign on to calling for an Article V Convention of States to propose and debate possible amendments to the US Constitution to limit the federal government and restore power back to the states. The bill calling for an Article V Convention had passed the Louisiana Senate previously. Louisiana’s legislature joins, Florida, Alaska, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Tennessee, and Oklahoma in backing use of the Constitutions second method for generating constitutional amendments to secure such long sought after things as congressional and Supreme Court term limits, a balanced budget amendment, and reigning in the federal bureaucracies regulation writing power. The Article V movement first began to gain steam following the publication of nationally syndicated talk show host Mark Levin’s book The Liberty Amendments. When the Texas legislature reconvenes next year, that state is easily likely to join those state legislatures calling for a Convention of States. During a radio interview during the week Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that recently concluded Texas GOP convention passed a priorities list for the legislative session, and adoption of the Article V application was near the top. It takes two-thirds of the state legislatures passing Article V applications for a Convention of States to be called and any amendment that such a Convention produces still must be ratified by three-fourths of the states before it can become law of the land.


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This post was edited on 2/15/17 at 9:19 pm
Posted by Wimp Lo
My nipples look like Milk Duds
Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 9:19 pm to
So who can we turn?
Posted by hsfolk
Member since Sep 2009
18540 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 9:21 pm to
i hope it's soon just to watch the Dems melt
Posted by hsfolk
Member since Sep 2009
18540 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 9:24 pm to


Alaska looks possible, but most of the states left are solid Democratic states

LINK
This post was edited on 2/15/17 at 9:26 pm
Posted by Wimp Lo
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 9:31 pm to
This would be hilarious to watch.
Posted by CptBengal
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 9:32 pm to
you would see the uniparty in DC literally melt down.
Posted by bamarep
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 9:51 pm to
This would be glorious to watch.
Posted by TigerFanInSouthland
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 2/15/17 at 10:13 pm to
Which one is the one where senators and SCOTUS justices don't have term limits? Yeah...let's get that shite fixed.
This post was edited on 2/15/17 at 10:15 pm
Posted by TDFreak
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Member since Dec 2009
7370 posts
Posted on 2/15/17 at 10:38 pm to
I think that the State/Federal power pendulum needs to swing from time to time. Here in 2017, we see that the Federal government has amassed too much power and at the same time is continuously frozen in gridlock. Lobbyists and the Deep State are running things. Not the People. Trump is constantly under attack without any help, even the Republicans.

We need the States to step-up, take back some power from the Feds, and get our house in order.

I'm sure the Globalists will punish this move by trying to lower the T-Bill's credit rating or wrecking the dollar, but we gotta stop this mess in D.C. once and for all.

This is all to say: BRING ON THE CONVENTION!
This post was edited on 2/15/17 at 10:39 pm
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