VIDEO: Nearly 100 State Lawmakers Meet & Plan to Take Back Government

VIDEO: Nearly 100 State Lawmakers Meet & Plan to Take Back Government

Article Five of the US Constitution gives us the power to amend it. One of the options it details is a Convention of the States, where an amendment is proposed by two-thirds of the states (a minimum of 34)  and, to be ratified, must receive the approval of three-fourths of the states (a minimum of 38).
In our history, not one constitutional amendment has been added through a state convention.
Congress has been the one to propose and ratify amendments to the Constitution, but with their historically-low 9% approval rating, the states are taking the charge to fight tyranny.

Last Saturday, nearly 100 state lawmakers from 32 states joined together to discuss using this strategy to amend the Constitution. Beautifully enough, this historic assembly was held at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home.
The Blaze reports:

Lawmakers on Saturday discussed term limits on U.S. lawmakers and certain limits on federal taxation and spending as possible amendments, Red Millennial noted.

State legislators stressed Saturday the bipartisan nature of support for the discussed amendments, citing a recent poll that shows 74 percent of Americans support a balanced budget amendment while another 75 percent support congressional term limits.

While only the state legislators were allowed to attend the meeting itself, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, David Barton, and Michael Farris have all been vocal about their support of these lawmakers exercising their constitutional rights.

On Facebook, Farris wrote:

We are beginning to reach critical mass in our efforts to use Article V of the Constitution to rein in the power of the federal government. The Mount Vernon Assembly is one of the major steps in that effort.

He noted there were some “conservative critics of this idea” who warned with “loudness and shrillness” that if the states should ever take this approach, it could lead to a “runaway ‘con con,’” or constitutional convention. Farris isn’t convinced:

Here is why their arguments are doomed to fail:

1. They are based on faulty history. The original Constitution was not adopted as the result of a runaway convention. Their entire argument is premised on this fallacy.

2. They have to convince state legislators that we can’t trust state legislators.

You see, state legislators control the Article V process from beginning to end. The “Con Con” fear arguments require state legislators to believe that we should be afraid of state legislators who might abuse their power.
Instead, these fear-based arguments leave us in the utterly precarious position of Washington DC to right itself.

And we have plenty of reasons not to trust the federal government:

• They illegally spy on and steal from us.
• They try to imprison those who call them out on it.
• They manipulate critical information to satisfy their bloodlust.
• They target us for our political views.
• They sic their IRS goons on us when we speak out.
• They lie to us about essentially everything.

State Representative Bill Taylor of South Carolina has already pre-filed a bill for a convention — which, if passed, would put SC “on board” for a convention of the states. The article continues below the video:
It could be said that using this strategy is a “Hail Mary” attempt at salvaging the Founders’ solution to a tyrannical government — especially considering it has  never before been done.
But, for anyone who values small government, it is a bold, noble, and principled attempt to save liberty, and after seeing the encouraging outcome of this assembly at Mount Vernon, it just might work.
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