We're actively working to call an Article V convention and restore self-governance in America.

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Replying to @4_trading
This is not about a new document. Every amendment we have has been obeyed for over 100 years, so we know they work. Former are still free, women still vote, presidents still serve only 2 elected terms. Amendments do three things. 1) Clarify something already in the Constitution. 2) reverse a Supreme Court ruling, or 3) Add a new rule to the Constitution. Amendments are necessary to change the powers of our government from time to time and protect the will and liberty of the people or when we need to remove a power because the federal government has abused it. By clarifying the original intent of the founders using clear concise language we can return the federal government to the limits granted in the Constitution, removing all of their own interpretations of the power they have and prevent future interpreations.
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Replying to @Mary14467376106
Calling a convention is never on the ballot. It is assigned to the legislature as a process.
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Replying to @jpotter743
They are in the minority for one thing with 30 red states and 18 blue. And the subject matter is actually non partisan.
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Replying to @RoundaboutWay5
That would come under our application subject of reducing the power and scope of jurisdiction of the federal government-so yes, it could be brought up.
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Replying to @LarsJoh01462024
Such as what? Subject matter is pre-set. Thirty four states must agree. State legislatures control the work of their commissioners and can recall them, replace them and void work that disobeyed the legislature. And the Courts have always protected this process the way the founders practiced it, and we have almost 350 years of historical and legal precedent.
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Replying to @42Rc21
The Supreme Court and the Dept of Justice both disagree. All interstate conventions held in our history have been limited and no one lost control of the convention. State legislatures would not permit that disobedience from the commissioners they control.
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Replying to @Redslay
That is factually incorrect. Six states had already passed their calls to convention before the Articles of Confederation was even mentioned. The states instructed their commissioners "to render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and, the preservation of the Union;" and VA called the convention setting that purpose, not Congress. Article V was actually the founders remedy for a government who encroached on the power of the states and the individual liberties of the people. It is how we enforce the Constitutionl
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Replying to @bewellmichelle
That point is why our application says officials and members of Congress. It is time to look at imposing term limits on federal judges and the deep state made up of congressional staffers and the unelected executive branch bureaucrats who are unaccountable to the people.
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Replying to @bcfghhpqtvwxyz
It actually is the process granted by the Constitution for exactly the problem of disobedient, overreaching government. In Fed 85 Hamilton wrote, "We may safely rely on the disposition of the State legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority.” Amendments do three things. 1) Clarify something already in the Constitution. 2) reverse a Supreme Court ruling, or 3) Add a new rule to the Constitution. Amendments are necessary to change the powers of our government from time to time and protect the will and liberty of the people or when we need to remove a power because the federal government has abused it. In fact if you look at the history of amendments more than half of the ones in the Constitution started with the state beginning to call for them through a convention. And every amendment is still in place, still working and still being obeyed for at least 100 years.
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Replying to @p3ace___
The Supreme Court has always protected this process exactly as the founders practiced it. And if you look at nearly 350 years of historical and legal precedent, all 42 interstate conventions held have been one state-one vote. With 30 red states whose state legislatures will instruct their commissioners on this, it will be one state one vote. This process is a convention of the states, not a convention of the commissioners.
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Replying to @bcfghhpqtvwxyz
An Article V convention is the way to enforce those limits.
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Those two amendments could certainly come up for discussion.
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Fiscal restraints. Limited federal power. Term limits. That’s what the Convention of States Resolution demands—and your petition signature goes directly to your state legislator to push for it: conventionofstates.com/x-pet…
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This is the way
THANK YOU to Nebraska's Convention of State Champions. They know that Congress will never limit its own power, and they are ready to ACT to impose limits from the outside!
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Our convention would only allow the states to discuss amendments that, “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.”
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This is the way. At this point, it may be the only way.
COS opponents claim that voting at an Article V Convention would be proportional, rather than "one-state, one-vote." Listen as constitutional lawyer Mike Farris smacks down that claim!
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An Article V convention of the states is our last best hope to save our Republic. Let's get it done!
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Replying to @COSProject
Article V has the old guard entrenched, shaking in there r boots! We the people will be heard by God🙏
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