The Founders Were AGAINST An ARTICLE V Convention
Call and email your State House Representative THIS morning and tell them to VOTE “NO” on SR 23.
While most states are RECINDING thier past applicatons, GEORGIA is playing Russian Roulette with our U.S. Constitution
Find your Representative here:
https://www.legis.ga.gov/
As recognized in our Declaration of Independence, a People always have the "self-evident right" to assemble in a convention to alter or abolish their government and set up a new one.
So James Madison agreed to add the convention method to Art. V: he knew People have this right whether or not the convention method was added to Art. V, and he wanted anti-federalist support the new constitution. He, John Jay and Hamilton promptly started warning against another convention.
1 Madison's Nov.2, 1788 letter to Turberville p.299 at 2 & 3. George Mason hated our Constitution & and so wanted another convention.
2 But in our venal times, Delegates are more likely to represent the Koch Brother(s) and George Soros, since they have the cash and are the largest documented ones financing the push for an Art V convention.
3. Soros wants a Progressive Constitution. The Globalists (Koch contingent) need a new constitution to move us into the North American Union.
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In an attempt to gloss over these warnings, the Convention of States Project (COSP) and other similar names, is falsely marketing the convention provided for in an Art. V as a "convention of states" which is controlled by state legislators. COS further claims (falsely) that by passing "faithful delegate" laws, state legislators will be able to dictate the amendments Delegates may propose; and will be able to prevent Delegates from proposing "unauthorized amendments" or writing a new Constitution.
1. A Lesson from History: The federal " amendments" convention of 1878
Delegates to a convention are the Sovereign Representative of the People 2 and have the power to abolish the government and set up a new one. We have already thrown off one constitution and set up a new one!
Our first federal Constitution, the Articles of Confederation (AOC), had defects. So on February 21, 1787, the Continental Congress called a convention to be held in Philadelphia "for the sole purpose and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation..."
Article 13 of the AOC provided that amendments had to be approved by the Congress and all of the then 13 States. Accordingly, the States' Instructions to the Delegates encompassed:
"alterations to the Federal Constitution which, when agreed to by Congress and the several States, would be effective.": Va, PA, Del., Georgia, S. Carolina, Maryland, & NH.
"for the purpose of revising the Federal Constitution": VA, PA, N.Carolina, Del., and Georgia.
"for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation": New York, Mass., & Conn.
"provisions to make the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate": New Jersey.
2. Congress decides how Delegates are selected. The convention provided for at an Art.V is a federal convention, called by the federal government, to perform the federal function of addressing our federal Constitution.
Art V Subsection 8, last clause, Congress has the power to make the laws necessary and proper to carry out its power to "call" the convention.
According to the Congressional Research Service Report (CRS) of April 11, 2014 says, "First, Article V delegates important and exclusive authority over the amendment process to Congress..." (p4)
"Second...Congress has traditionally laid claim to broad responsibilities in connection with a convention, including...
(4) determining the number and selection process for its delegates;
(5) setting internal convention procedures, including formulae for allocation of votes among the states;...(p4) [italics added].
Congress is not required to permit States to appoint Delegates. Congress may appoint themselves as Delegates!
3. Foundational Principles
State legislators are "creatures" of their State Constitutions, and have no competent authority to control the Sovereign Representative of The People at an Art. V Convention. The People create governments by means of constitutions. Since a government is the "creature" of its constitution, it cannot be superior to its Creator, The People.
The Delegates, as Sovereign Representatives of the People, have the power to eliminate the federal & State governments.
4. At the federal "amendments" convention of 1787, where our present Constitution was drafted, James Madison said on July 23, 1787 (pages 92-93) that state legislatures were not competent to ratify the proposed new Constitution - that "ratification must of necessity be obtained from the people".
5. The proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America (currently written) dissolves the States and replaces them with regional governments answerable to the NEW national government. Art. XII subsection 1 thereof provides that it is ratified by a national by a national referendum.
6. See the "Supremacy Clause" at Art. VI clause 2, U.S. Constitution.
Art. V grants to the Convention the power to "propose amendments". So the Convention is the deliberative body. State Legislatures violate the U.S. Constitution when they pass laws which purport to strip Delegates of their power, granted by Article V, to "purpose amendments" 6
4. States cannot hold Delegates accountable
Madison's Journal of the Federal Convention of 1787 shows that on May 29, 1787, the Delegates voted to make their proceedings secret. What if Delegates of today make the proceedings secret? And if they vote by secret ballot, the States would never know who did what.
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So, even though Art. V speaks of a "convention for proposing amendments", The Declaration of Independence, as part of the "organic law" of our Land, may be invoked again to impose a new constitution which creates a new government.
I hope that this brief explanation is helpful to the danger of an Article V Convention today. As James Madison said, "Having witnessed the difficulties and dangers experienced by the first Convention, which assembled under every propitious circumstance, I should tremble for the result of a Second. Nov.2, 1788
Suzi Voyles
President, Eagle Forum of Georgia
404-414-1000
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