April 29, 2018 Victories around the Nation: Defeating the Numerous Article V Constitutional Convention Resolutions By Janine Hansen, Eagle Forum National Constitutional Issues Chairman director@nevadafamilies.org
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April 26, 2018 By Janine Hansen, National Constitutional Issues Chairman Eagle Forum The battle to save our Constitution rages across the country. Although “conservatives” control
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April 6, 2018 The national effort to call for a national “Convention of the States” to consider altering the Constitution of the United States took
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Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society.
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Delegate bills are designed by the proponents of Article V Constitutional Conventions to take the worry out of a wide-open Constitutional Convention proposing limitless amendments. But the “Convention of States Project” itself proposes limitless ideas for amendments exposing the erroneous idea that COS has any intention of limiting the number of amendments in an Article V Convention.
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At noon on February 14, 2018, the Executive Board of the Legislative Council of the Nebraska Legislature heard LR277 to rescind all previous applications by the Nebraska Legislature for Article V Constitutional Conventions.
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Janine Hansen, the National Issues Chair for Eagle Forum, will be at the Nebraska State Capitol to address Legislators and other interested individuals on Thursday, February 15, 2018. Janine is an expert in the subject of the Article V convention of states as a result of the experience gained from research and speaking she began in the 1980s.
Continue reading →Eight States have been targeted by the Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force www.bba4usa.org for 2017-2018. They are Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington. According to their count they need 6 more states.
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Unfortunately, after languishing for months in the Wisconsin Senate, AJR21 (BBA) and its accompanying Delegate bills AB165 and AJR20 are scheduled for a Senate vote this Tuesday, Nov. 7th.
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Mark Meckler Finds Common Ground with Strange Bedfellows, by Orlean Koehle, author of America Needs Revival, Not Revision, Dangers and Threats of an Article V Convention
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North Carolina Legislative Leaders: Thank you for your courageous stand in opposing a call for a Convention of the States.
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Phyllis and her volunteers have been warning against the inherent danger of a constitutional convention for decades. Phyllis’s extensive writings echoed sentiments set forth by former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote to Phyllis in June 1988 that he believed a constitutional convention was a waste of time, that it could not be controlled regardless of any limits set by Congress, and that it would be a free-for-all for special interests groups.
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March 27, 2017 was the first hearing in the Nevada Legislature on SJR10 to Rescind all previous applications for Article V Conventions including a BBA. I was asked by the very liberal Democrat Sponsor Senator Segerblom to sit at the table with him and give testimony. Democrat Senator Atkinson on the Committee was so amused by our left-right cooperation that he took our picture to send out on Twitter. The basis of my testimony is in the handout below.
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Great News! Late last night SJR10 was introduced in the Nevada Legislature to Rescind all previous Article V applications in Nevada which includes an Article V for a Balanced Budget Amendment.
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Balanced Budget Amendment Article V applications passed in 32 states during the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s. The BBA nearly succeeded in achieving the needed 34 states for an Article V Convention. Our strategy became one of the rescissions.
Continue reading →Convention of States was defeated on Feb 23 in the Utah State Senate 12-1-16 after passing the House.
Continue reading →I am happy to report that Washington State’s SJM 8003 (COS) did not pass out of the State Government committee by yesterday’s deadline and is likely dead for this session.
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The Convention of States deceptively proposes a “limited” convention to “impose fiscal restraints on the federal government and to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.” It sounds reasonable until you realize that the purpose of the entire Constitution was to “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.” It then becomes clear that the COS proposal will open every portion of the Constitution to structural change.
Continue reading →I would like help in compiling the many and varied “possible amendments” promised by the Convention of States depending upon which state they are working on. Please send me links or quotes from your state on the promises of amendments by COS.
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It looks like all sorts of people are joining the game of rewriting parts of the U.S. Constitution. It started with state legislators who apparently had time on their hands, and now it’s even extended to U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
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Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides two methods by which the nation’s founding charter may be amended. The first, Amendment by Congressional Proposal, requires the adoption of an amendment or amendments by a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress; the second, generally referred to as the “Article V Convention” method, authorizes the states to apply to Congress for a convention for proposing an amendment or amendments. If the legislatures of two-thirds of the states, 34 at present, do, in fact, apply for a convention, Congress is obliged to convene one. Both methods then require the approval of three-fourths of the states, 38 at present, in order to become part of the Constitution.
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One of the most valuable individual rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution is the right of “inventors” to own “the exclusive right” to their “discoveries” for “limited times.”
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