Mock Constitutional Convention was successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Percent_Declaration 2012 national assembly resulted in 15 amendment-like grievances by 75 people in 3 days. Arizona State University is hosting another one. https://constitutionaldesign.asu.edu/2024-model-constitutional-convention/
Congress is broken. 2023 was one of the worst years for Congressional productivity.
Congress acts when 2/3rds of votes are near. 27th Amendment passed in 1992 when state approval was near. See “The People’s Constitution” book page 245.
Congress will limit topics and set a deadline. Congress will limit convention topics to the state resolutions so no new Constitution will result. Congress will also set a deadline.
States and Congress will specify attendees. Some state resolutions specify attendees. Congress will designate the rest.
3/4th of States have to approve any amendments. Per Constitution Article V a whole new Constitution will never pass in 3/4th of States.
Why a Convention?
What about a runaway Convention?
“Much of the fear surrounding a convention is unfounded. The Convention Clause’s text and history indicate that it grants power to the States to limit the scope of any such convention. In addition, the States have the ability to reject any amendments proposed by a convention through the (3/4th of States) ratification process.”
– The Other Way to Amend the Constitution: The Article V Constitutional Convention Amendment Process, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 30, Issue 3
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needs your support.
For more info see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez
To volunteer see https://www.mobilize.us/ocasiocortez/
To support AOC see https://www.ocasiocortez.com/splash
70% of the Trump’s statements on the campaign trail were false aka “fake news”.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658
Trump’s favorite source of media news was Breitbart.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/trumps-information-universe?utm_term=.qoxLNMB7A#.kfmygrOon
Therefore Breitbart is the leading source of “Fake news”.
The FCC can fine media for “fake news” as done here.
https://www.freepress.net/press-release/2011/3/25/fcc-fines-local-tv-stations-airing-fake-news
Therefore, Breitbart should be fined.
Elizabeth says she is not running for President. But how about Vice President?
Okay. I will take that as a maybe.
Young voters of the Jon Stewart generation are clamoring for truth in politics. And they know (cue the Carly Simon music) nobody does it better than Elizabeth.
The “quit screwing the consumer” Congresswoman, has high admiration from all members of generations x, y and z.
Therefore, Elizabeth is the obvious choice for clinching the Democratic primary.
So Bernie or Hillary, which of you will be the first to get her in your camp?
PS The Carly Simon song would make a great tune on the campaign trail.
The other day I gave an impromptu speech at my Toastmasters club. I started out by asking how many people knew about Citizen’s United. One hand was raised.
Then I asked how many people knew about robocalls. Nearly every hand was raised.
That summarizes how limited the marketing campaign is for reversing Citizen’s United and approving a 28th Constitutional Amendment to do so. People just don’t have the time to understand the ramifications of the Supreme Court ruling in the Citizen’s United case.
We have a better chance of passing a 28th Amendment and make change if we concentrate on something most people hate. Yes you got it – robocalls.
Henceforth, we need to call the 28th Constitutional Amendment the Political Robocall Amendment.
I learned the other day that England actually allows their political campaigns to last only one month. What a concept. But I am setting my sites on larger fish than a one month time limit.
I am targeting the Super PACs, and the out of control campaign spending by the rich .003 percent of the population, and the enormous amounts of political television ads and of course the ginormous numbers of robocalls by politicians. I have had enough and I am not going to take it any more.
There are plenty of people and cities that feel the same way. There are hundreds of websites supporting a 28th Constitutional Amendment. I agree with them because it is the only way to reverse Citizen’s United. But there are at least 20 proposed versions. Most concentrate on the following two issues:
1. corporations are not people or citizens
2. money is not free speech.
We need to get down to one version. The MoveToAmend.org version appears to have the most support. It is rather simple as most approved amendments tend to be. But I have several concerns.
One concern is the need to define citizens as individuals and restrict ONLY corporations. Instead we need to restrict ALL groups of people, whether they are corporations, for-profits, non-profits, unions etc. If we restrict one group, money will flow to others.
Another concern is saying money is not free speech. This is like trying to train your dog to not poop on the carpet by trying to train it to not poop at all. In other words, we will have more success if we limit campaign spending to individuals and a certain amount rather than trying to eliminate money as free speech.
Likewise, I hate to say it, but we will never get rid of all robocalls, but we can limit them.
Here is my attempt at an amendment which indirectly eliminates Super PACs and greatly reduces robocalls.
1. Each citizen is a person as defined in the Constitution with human rights and these rights are not granted to artificial groups of people.
2. Campaign contributions shall be allowed only by citizens and the amount per citizen per election shall be determined by Congress.
Here is a book about this very subject.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/804567260/2033-the-20th-anniversary-a-book
Also please support MoveToAmend.org to greatly reduce robocalls.
Michael E Kelley 