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Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
20. I know; isn't that what I said?
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 12:49 AM
Aug 2017
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/billionaire-backed-movement-dangerously-close-calling-constitutional-convention

After an active start to 2017, proponents are now allegedly seven states away from reaching the needed 34 states (two-thirds) to convene a convention. According to Article V, which lays out all the ways the constitution can be amended, any amendments proposed by the convention would then need to be ratified by 38 (three-fourths) of the states.
In an email sent to supporters, Mark Meckler, a professional Tea Party campaigner for COS, said, “when we succeed in getting 34 states to pass our legislation, a convention will be called where the states can propose amendments to…

Get the federal government out of our healthcare system.
Impose term limits on Congress.
Balance the budget.
Mandate nationwide voter ID.
Take back our education systems.
Limit federal power."


did you read the article?

scares the crap out of me

Even scarier....rules made up on the spot;
Anything can happen:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/21/a-constitutional-convention-could-be-the-single-most-dangerous-way-to-fix-american-government/?tid=a_inl-amp&utm_term=.cbe561169bb1

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