•• Our nation's founders believed that there were universal principles that brought about good government. They sought to discover these "ancient principles" by vigorously studying different country's history and also by studying the Bible. ••
• This blog is written by Terry Haines •
The Convention of States (COS) Movement
I am an avid supporter for the Convention of States movement. But many people don't know what that is. So let me do some explaining.
There are two ways to bring about an Amendment to our US Constitution. In the almost 250 years our country has existed, we have only used only one of these ways. Our country went through the Congress to adopt Constitutional Amendments. But what if Congress and the federal government are themselves the problem? Our wise Founders provided a second route for Constitutional Amendments. It is using the states. This way is also found in Article 5 of our Constitution.
This second method reads:
...or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments...
Because the different states have to agree on the purpose for this assembly, those who propose we now take this path have given three intentions on what we consider for Constitutional Amendments. These are:
Limit Their Time
That is, make an Amendment that will bring about term limits for many or all federal Representatives. This could include the US Senate, the US House of Representatives, the Supreme Court Justices, and perhaps bureaucrats or other federal employees. This Amendment has widespread approval. According to one poll, 87% of Americans want term limits for their Representatives. Many other polls express at least 80% approval of term limits.
Limit Their Power
When our country was founded the Constitution placed many limits on what powers or authorities the federal government had. Through some really bad Supreme Court decisions over many decades, we now have a federal government that for all practical purposes has no limit at all on their powers. Our government that was designed to serve and protect its citizens is now very clearly the master of its citizens. The answer is to clearly limit the federal powers and bring power back to the states.
Limit Their Money
Our country desperately needs some form of fiscal control. Our country is so far in debt right now that when a baby is born, they already owe the federal government around $100,000. Three out of every four dollars that we give the government in Income Taxes is spent to pay the INTEREST on the federal debt. Our federal government is funded by one fourth of our income taxes and whatever they choose to borrow in our name. We spend more money on our national debt than we do on the Department of Defense. Forty percent of the money ever printed by the Federal Reserve has been printed since Covid-19, with most of that in the past several months. The Federal Reserve, which is a private banking system that lends to our government at interest, has existed since 1913. It is hard to imagine that we have overspent that much in that short of a time, but we have.
As this debt increases, one by one our government services will be impossible to maintain. The federal government has proven that they will not, most would say cannot, control themselves fiscally. The states must step up to this responsibility.
What Needs to Happen Now?
We have 19 states that have already agreed to bring about this Convention of States (COS). We need two-thirds, or 34 states to agree for this assembly to occur. The legislators have to agree to the Convention. The various governors have no say-so on this matter. COS is not a bill, but a proposal, a referendum. MICHIGAN is one of the states that still needs to agree to bring about this Convention.
If and when the 34 states agree to meet, all 50 states will meet with one Commissioner representing each state. They can have as many advisers as they wish to assist them, but when it comes to a vote, there is only one official vote per state, the Commissioner's vote. The different state legislatures will choose this Commissioner to represent the interest of that state. If the Commissioner does not follow the wishes of their state, they can be recalled and replaced at any time by the state legislatures.
When over half (26) of the commissioners agree on the wording of a proposed Constitutional Amendment, then it is sent to the states for ratification. This follows the exact same ratification procedure that we may be familiar with. Three-fourths (38) of the states have to agree on the Amendment for it to legally become part of our Constitution. That is a high standard. That means that if one chamber of 13 states does not agree to the Amendment, the Amendment fails to become part of our Constitution. This brings almost unbelievable safety to the entire procedure.
We desperately need this, for so many reasons. This one Convention could solve 80% of our frustrations with out federal government. But this Convention must be called at a STATE level.
I am personally aware of no purer political movement..
If you would like your state legislators to support this Convention, then contact them through the Convention of States web site and sign the petition to make this a reality.
Also - let me dwell on the obvious - you can also elect me to the State House.
That will help the movement.
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In a 300 page report, Biden is found guilty of influence peddling.
~ The report describes in detail Biden's 'abuse of power, foreign entanglements, corruption, and obstruction of investigations.'
• Rite Aid is closing its remaining 170 stores in Michigan.
• Musk's Interview With Trump Crashes After Coming Under ‘Massive DDOS Attack’ - Daily Wire. See X content. Musk said that earlier in the day his team “tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners”.
• Quote from Gubba Homestead,
"Hard to hear facts that I'm going to say anyways:
The pharmaceutical companies are insuring that you never get well.
The banks are insuring that you never get out of debt.
The media is insuring that you never know the truth.
And the government...
They're insuring that they can all do that legally."
• MTG is mad! (Paraphrasing) "I do not worship Donald Trump. I worship God. The Dems worship George Floyd. They burned down cities over him. And he was a felon."
• I'm watching the TV ads. I do have to wonder why Kamala Harris is "fighting for an America" that [enter promise here]. If Biden and Harris could accomplish what they are now promising, why haven't they done those things already? They are in power right now.
• BREAKING: Tim Walz Blindsided By New Investigation Into His Chinese Communist Links
• Tim Walz’s 2019 Inauguration Speaker was Muslim Cleric who Praised Adolf Hitler and Hamas – Sara A. Carter
• Voting drop boxes are a violation of a legal concept called Chain of Evidence. Chain of Evidence is the concept used by OJ Simpson's lawyers in his murder trial. Using it, OJ won.
Chain of Evidence means keeping full control of evidence at all times. Otherwise the evidence has probably been corrupted. The evidence of a vote is the ballot. With a drop box we do not know where the ballot came from. The legal concept is a well established one, except in voting.
In almost any other legal environment, the evidence - the ballot from a drop box - would be thrown out.
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• Kamala Harris wants a government takeover of our nation's health care. ("Medicare for all")
Watch as Dan Bongino brings it out (7:03).
• Milton Friedman said it best:
“Keep your eye on how much the Government is spending, because that is the true tax. There is no such thing as an unbalanced budget. You PAY FOR IT either in the form of taxes, or indirectly in the form of inflation or debt.”
• Top Biologist gives BRILLIANT SPEECH on why 'Lab Leak Theory' is Fact
• DETROIT: Republicans Mostly Shut Out Of 2024 Watchdog Poll Worker Positions,
• The economy, of course, is an issue every election cycle. We had a little scare on August 5, when the Japanese market and the North Korean market crashed and our market took a dip.
It's still not certain what will happen in the near future. The stock market is still better than it was when Joe Biden began living in the White House. I have never believed that the stock market directly indicates the welfare of the man on the street.
Wall Street and Main Street are not the same.
To the right are more indicators of our economy. The uber-wealthy are selling their stocks to get cash. Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffet are two examples. Why do the uber-wealthy do this? They expect the market to crash and, having ready cash on hand, they will swoop in and pick up whole companies for pennies on the dollar.
I used to live in Oakland County. Over two decades ago, I came across a library record of things that happened in the area during the Great Depression. In one day, over 10,000 houses were sold for pennies on the dollar. That's because Cash is King.
This could be the same situation as back then.
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• Stellantis announces 2,450 union layoffs at Warren Truck Assembly Plant
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Feeling that we have to choose between God and Science is a false dichotomy at best.
Also, church and state are not dichotomies, completely separate, but intricately interconnected. We should not be afraid of that.
•"This is the most undemocratic election in history."
~ Mark Levin.
Kamala Harris, who received no votes at all in her 2020 run for President, is now at the top of the ticket. Joe Biden likely did not choose to end his run for President. He was forced out, most think. All the delegate voters who voted for Joe Biden to be the Presidential candidate are being completely ignored.
Don't buy it when Democrats say they believe in democracy.
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• On January 6th, almost the entire country felt violated.
Half of the country felt violated because they were outraged that a "riot" had occurred at our nation's capital. The other half of us feel violated because most of the supposed rioters were invited into the Capital by the Capital police and were peacefully touring the building. Also, the FBI will not tell us how many of their people were instigators in the disturbance.
And who is Ray Epps, and why is he not in jail like the 1200 others who did nothing more wrong than trespassing?
The January 6th prisoners are almost entirely political prisoners.
Compare this riot to the George Floyd riots and how the Democratic Party reacted to that. They were both riots, weren't they?
How about the BLM and Antifa riots of 2020? Where was the Democratic outrage?
What about the Hamas riots recently in DC where a lot of monuments were defaced. If the Democratic Party is outraged by riots they should be universally outraged by riots.
And how about the outrage over Donald Trump almost being assassinated? Hmmm?
Double standard? Very much so. The Democrats use violence when they need to to accomplish their purposes. They are only outraged by opposition resistance to their agenda.
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• Twenty one years ago, on August 14, 2003, part of our nation and part of Canada suffered a massive power outage. The fact that this could happen showed how fragile and interdependent our electrical system is.
I believe that electric vehicles and the electrical needs of Artificial Intelligence may overwhelm our electrical grid again. So I do not believe that we should supplement electric vehicles with our taxes. ○
• Today's Democratic Party is not
the Democratic Party of
President John F Kennedy.
And who should know better than RFK Jr.?
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• The Democratic Party PROVES at their Democratic National Convention that they know walls work if you want to keep people out.
Hmmm. Think. Think. Could there be any other applications to the "Walls Work" idea?
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