Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Strange Bedfellows

 Socialists and Soros Fight for Article V Convention [More]

But...but...but "conservative" Mark Levin... 

Posted by David Codrea at 2/23/2022 08:25:00 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

One should remember that once an Article V convention is assembled, all bets are off. No existing law will guide or limit the outcome, except perhaps for the precedent set by the first Constitutional Convention.

Instead of reforming the Articles of Confederation, four men set that gathering on a path to throw out the existing framework and essentially start again from scratch.

https://www.amazon.com/Quartet-Orchestrating-American-Revolution-1783-1789/dp/0385353405/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Those calling for a ConCon imagine it reforming the current system, pushing FedGov back into the box contrived for it by the founders. What is more likely, given the Law of Unintended Consequences, is that States like Illinois, California, and New York, will send delegates like the ones they now send to Congress, and that those members of a new "Squad" will contrive to use a blank sheet of paper to make things even worse when viewed from a conservative perspective.

A second Constitutional Convention could have many possible outcomes, but a Conservative "Deus Ex Machina" is not the most likely.

2/23/2022 8:56 AM
Henry said...

It is stupidity indeed to believe that the problem of politicians blatantly disobeying the contents of the old piece of paper will be remedied by creating a new piece of paper.

2/23/2022 3:38 PM
Anonymous said...

"But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." -- Federalist #51

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp

2/24/2022 7:08 AM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)