Lawmakers Meet in Effort to Revise the US Constitution
GOP wingnuts are attempting to end run Democracy and majority rule with a convention to retrofit the constitution they pretend to revere. They want to do this while the far right GOP controls so many state legislatures because the hand writing is on the wall - that’s not going to last for very much longer.
A small but determined group of state lawmakers from some 30 states gathered in Indiana Thursday to lay the groundwork for something that has not happened since 1787 in Philadelphia: a convention to revise the U.S. Constitution.
The bar they would have to clear — winning approval from 34 state legislatures — seems impossibly high, but the group of roughly 100 legislators, most of them Republicans, is pressing on.
Fueling them is a firm belief that the federal government is increasingly overstepping its bounds and has forgotten that it was the states which gave it life at the birth of the United States, not the other way around.
“We’re trying to save the Constitution and the powers that are inherent there, the powers in the 10th, 9th (amendments) where the power is reserved to the states and to the people,” said Rep. Jordan Ulery, a New Hampshire Republican.
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