Article V Vote In Virginia On Wednesday, How Will It Go?

[unregistered]

 

[KingOrfeo]

Well, usually such resolutions have a stated purpose, a topic they want a constitutional convention to address. What is it in this case?

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2015/01/virginia-house-bills-seek-constitutional-convention

Looks like a plan to limit the federal budget. I suppose Virginia thinks it's getting too much federal aid.

 

[Que]

Well, usually such resolutions have a stated purpose, a topic they want a constitutional convention to address. What is it in this case?

"Usually?"

Are you looking at the notes from all of the many previous Article V conventions?

 

[KingOrfeo]

"Usually?"

Are you looking at the notes from all of the many previous Article V conventions?

Not conventions, no, there has never been one (and probably never will be), but at some Article V resolutions.

 

[Que]

An article V convention has absolutely no limits. It can write anything the delegates agree to. If whatever they come up with is ratified, it is the new constitution. One doesn't have to have any specific agenda to call one.

 

[Sean Renaud]

An article V convention has absolutely no limits. It can write anything the delegates agree to. If whatever they come up with is ratified, it is the new constitution. One doesn't have to have any specific agenda to call one.

But don't you think one should have something that could be considered a direction heading in?

Personally I'm of the school that every ten or twenty years we should a mandatory convention even if it's really just a formality and nobody expects to change much of anything.

 

[unregistered]

 

[KingOrfeo]

An article V convention has absolutely no limits. It can write anything the delegates agree to.

Then you have to wonder whether those who call for one really mean it -- or might regret it.

 

[KingOrfeo]

If we're throwing the floor open to re-write the Constitution, very first thing, let's abolish the Electoral College and the Senate.

 

[Sean Renaud]

If we're throwing the floor open to re-write the Constitution, very first thing, let's abolish the Electoral College and the Senate.

Replace them with?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Replace them with?

Elect the POTUS by direct national popular vote (and I'd prefer that be done by instant-runoff voting or approval voting, but that's another discussion), and devolve all the Senate's functions on the House. A one-house legislature is better than a two-house legislature because it is stronger as against the executive.

 

[unregistered]

 

[KingOrfeo]

Read The Liberty Amendments, by Mark Levin. He started this whole ball rolling.

This one?

The eleven amendments proposed by Levin:[3][4]
1.Impose Congressional term limits
2.Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment
3.Impose term limits for Supreme Court Justices and restrict judicial review
4.Require a balanced budget and limit federal spending and taxation
5.Define a deadline to file taxes (one day before the next federal election)
6.Subject federal departments and bureaucratic regulations to reauthorization and review
7.Create a more specific definition of the Commerce Clause
8.Limit eminent domain powers
9.Allow states to more easily amend the Constitution
10.Create a process where two-thirds of the states can nullify federal laws
11.Require photo ID to vote and limit early voting

What an agenda that list bespeaks! Of course, only 1 and 9 are even worthy of passing consideration.