By Steve Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--December 12, 2023
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Article V of the United States Constitution provides a tool for the many states to have some control of a rogue federal government. The Founding Fathers foresaw the potential for the federal government to stray from the intent of the founding documents as the current American government so brilliantly demonstrates day after day. Few reading this will disagree with my assessment that the American federal government is a tyrannical, out of control, rogue police state government.
Shortly after the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century, Citizens for Self Governance initiated a movement for a Convention of States (COS) in accordance with Article V of the U.S. Constitution. It wasn’t until 2014 that the Georgia legislature was the first to pass a resolution to participate in such a convention. Sadly, only 18 other states have passed such resolutions in the intervening 10 years. Unfortunately, there seems to be no sense of urgency on the part of state legislatures to move this process forward.
According to the COS website, there are seven states whose legislatures have a resolution that has been passed in one chamber of the legislature. In addition, there are 19 states that have unpassed active legislation pending. To me that means there may be only one legislator who has proposed a COS resolution that may or may never appear on the floor of said legislature. There are also five states where no legislation has been proposed.
As I look at the five states (California, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Michigan) that have no legislation pending, I doubt that California and Oregon will ever get onboard and Michigan is doubtful. Idaho probably will and maybe Nevada.
Of the states with legislation introduced, I doubt that Washington, Colorado, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, or Massachusetts will be willing to break their Marxist government rice bowl to join such an effort.
In looking at the states where a resolution has passed one chamber of their legislature (Virginia, Vermont, North Carolina, New Mexico, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa), I doubt that Virginia will actually get its face out the D.C swamp feed trough.
As I see it, there is a block of 13 states that are very unlikely to ever join the COS effort and several other states that are severely challenged regarding support of the United States Constitution. If only these 13 states refuse to participate, the COS is dead due to being one short of the required number.
I wholeheartedly favor a COS. However, I feel the window of opportunity closed on this effort with the 2020 collapse of the fair election process and the unwillingness of the courts, the states, and Congress to fix the broken election system.
However, if, by some miracle, Trump gets re-elected and followed by another MAGA patriot president for two terms, there may be time enough to finally pull a COS together. Failing that, America will likely fall under a tyranny from which there will be no peaceful recovery.
So, is a Convention of States viable or simply a pipe dream? We’ll know soon enough.
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After a 55 year career as a professional pilot in the military, in law enforcement, in the private sector, and in federal civil service, I am now retired.
In many of these positions I repeatedly took an oath to defend the United States Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.