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Conservative Surge puts GOP Control of States at 95-Year High

Convention of States ^ | August 25th 2017 | Convention of States Project

Posted on by Jacquerie

There's never been a better time to call a Convention of States.

While both Democrat and Republican legislators support limiting the power of the federal government, we've found that states controlled by conservatives are more likely to pass the Convention of States resolution. That's why this article from The Daily Signal is such good news:

Republicans now control the governorship and legislature in 26 states and conservative leaders say this trend continues to grow in Republicans favor.

Over the last seven years since we have covered state legislatures and state executives pretty extensively, theres been a significant shift from Democratic-controlled state governments to Republican, Geoff Pallay, editor in chief at Ballotpedia, a website focused on elections, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.

Whatever happened in 2010 has remained, Pallay said. The trend of widespread Republican leadership continued. With West Virginia Gov. Jim Justices announcement Aug. 3 of his switch from Democrat to Republican, the GOP has 26 trifectas while Democrats hold six, Ballotpedia notes.

A trifecta is a situation where one political party holds the governorship, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House in a states government, it says.



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To: Jacquerie

> There’s never been a better time to call a Convention of States. < Agreed. Some conservatives shy away from a Convention, because you never know just what you’re going to get out of it. It’s a risk. But the odds are now very much in our favor. Ten years from now, who knows? I say roll the dice.



by 2 posted onby Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)

To: Leaning Right

“Ten years from now, who knows? I say roll the dice.” I think we would see a bidding war for “conservative” delegates. I can imagine bribes in the millions and many, perhaps most would take them. We could end up hamstringing conservatism as it never was before. We have all the laws and constitution we need now. The problem is they have been neutered by the courts. That is a problem more easily fixed with a majority than taking the risk of rewriting the documents that govern us. This is where the huge buying power of liberals could be our undoing.



To: Jacquerie

You know I’m all in on this.

Let’s roll.



To: Jacquerie

Hate to throw cold water on a plan like COS but the Left ignores our current constitution and the amendments they do not agree with. Why would they follow any new ones drafted by deplorable crazies?



by 5 posted onby urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)

To: Jacquerie

There's never been a better time to call a Convention of States.



Republicans now control the governorship and legislature in 26 states and conservative leaders say this trend continues to grow in Republicans favor.



Are you kidding? The Republican Party is not uniformly conservative - there are plenty of John McCains, Lindsay Grahams and Susan Collins types throughout the party. And many of the ones who are nominally conservative have proven repeatedly that they don't have the courage to stand up for the principles they espouse.



A constitutional convention with the liberal media and liberal politicians howling for restrictions on free speech and restrictions on gun rights while Republicans spend their time attacking each other and apologizing for those among them who dare to stand up to the Left? No thanks - leave it alone. America would come out of it even worse than it is now.



To: Gen.Blather

If something really meaningful were going to take place in this country to change things in a positive direction, it would be interdicted by the large corporations-banks opposing it, the media with Antifa type harassment plus the judiciary sticking its nose into the matter as well ala Brexit. The existing Constitution is good but only if large masses of people exercise its rights with nonviolent resistance.



by 7 posted onby Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business, Remember Pastor Niemoller)

To: Jacquerie

“With West Virginia Gov. Jim Justices announcement Aug. 3 of his switch from Democrat to Republican, the GOP has 26 trifectas while Democrats hold six, Ballotpedia notes.

A trifecta is a situation where one political party holds the governorship, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House in a states government, it says.” Good. I hope it continues.



by 8 posted onby Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)

To: Jacquerie

Conservative Surge puts GOP Control of States at 95-Year High Convention of States ^ | August 25th 2017 | Convention of States Project Posted on 8/26/2017, 1:00:59 PM by Jacquerie Over the last seven years since we have covered state legislatures and state executives pretty extensively, theres been a significant shift from Democratic-controlled state governments to Republican, Geoff Pallay, editor in chief at Ballotpedia, a website focused on elections, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. Whatever happened in 2010 has remained, Pallay said. The trend of widespread Republican leadership continued. With West Virginia Gov. Jim Justices announcement Aug. 3 of his switch from Democrat to Republican, the GOP has 26 trifectas while Democrats hold six, Ballotpedia notes. A trifecta is a situation where one political party holds the governorship, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House in a states government, it says.



by 9 posted onby Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)

To: Leaning Right

Agreed. Some conservatives shy away from a Convention, because you never know just what youre going to get out of it. Yes, and the huge risk is that not all "Republicans" are Republicans, as in Conservatives.



To: Gen.Blather

You have a fertile imagination. Delegates (not representatives) with detailed commissions from their states will attend.



To: Jacquerie; All

Get rid of 16th and 17th Amendments.

Amend the Constitution to require Congress to reference specific constitutional clauses in all bills, clauses that reasonably show that the states have expressly constitutionally delegated to Congress the specific power to make a given law.

Amend the Constitution to require the courts to presume the feds guilty of trying to unconstitutionally expand the federal government powers when Congress cannot reasonably constitutionally justify a given bill. "In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.

Amend the Constitution to give the states the power to criminalize anybody in the federal government, including members of Congress, who steals state powers and uses those stolen powers to oppress the states and their citizens. And while the lawless Obama administration is still fresh in mind, the states need the constitutional authority to remove from office members of Congress who allow federal officials outside the legislative branch to get away with stealing federal and state legislative powers, using those powers to oppress the states and their citizens.

The states need to give themselves the constitutional power to recall bad-apple federal lawmakers, POTUS, SCOTUS justices, federal lawmakers, judges and other non-elected officials.

Require all voters and new citizens to pass a one-time basic constitutional law test, a test which emphasizes the feds constitutionally limited powers and limited power to appropriate taxes, before being allowed to vote. Passing such a test will help citizens to work with prosecutors to convict lawmakers, POTUS, justices, judges and lobbyists who ignore the feds constitutionally limited powers.

Require all voters and new citizens to likewise know Section 1 of 14th Amendment so that citizens can work with federal representatives to prevent the states from abridging their constitutionally enumerated rights.

Require all foreign officials, including prime ministers ambassadors, to pass voting test before being allowed to negotiate trade treaties with US.

Require candidate federal lawmakers to first serve a term as a state lawmaker so that they can become familiar with state budgets and learn about the feds limited power to appropriate taxes.

Prohibit political party support of all federal officials and offices.

Amend the Constitution to protect the life of unborn children.

Amend the Constitution so that federal lawmakers receive only minimum salary from US Treasury for their services. Lawmakers can be paid bonus by their states for protecting their states from federal government overreach.

Citizens need to make sure that they have the legal standing to recall state lawmakers and other officials, including public school teachers and administrators. Finally, although Trump is accomplishing a LOT as president, it remains that since the uniparty Congress wants to get rid of him that his first two years in office are arguably just practice. That being said ... Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer! Remember in November 2018 ! Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump. In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots. Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitutions Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal governments powers. Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal governments limited powers listed here. Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

"State inspection laws, health laws , and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added] ." Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. United States v. Butler, 1936. Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following. Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment. 14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!



To: AnotherUnixGeek

Zactly



by 13 posted onby ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")

To: AnotherUnixGeek

The Texas Republicans made a lot of noise about a ‘bathroom protection bill’ to deal with transgenderism and called a special session of their legislature which ended a week ago Friday with no action. The big corporation-big bank payrollers of the politicians including the NFL did not approve. I’m a libertarian myself but how religious people or others concerned about transgenderism could believe the GOP are the ‘conservative knights’ riding in to save them is beyond me. Those of us who wan’t less government, less regulation, lower taxes get the shaft all the time when it comes to policy originating with GOP controlled bodies.



by 14 posted onby Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business, Remember Pastor Niemoller)

To: Nextrush

After only six years from ratification of the Articles of Confederation, a nation in a precarious situation assembled some of its leading men to deal with the crisis. They recognized that the structure of government was more important than the character of those in it. Unlike our Framers, we needn’t be creative at all; just restore the states to the Senate. All good things are possible with repeal of the 17th Amendment and impossible without it.



To: Jacquerie

With commissions that don’t rock the boat of the kind of folks who support the GOP politicians who send them, the socially liberal crony capitalists of the Goldman Sachs, Apple, Facebook elites. So much of politics in the mainstream Uniparty of D’s and R’s, “Progressive” and “Conservative” has turned out to be a feel good illusion, a soma, a drag of weed. Some of “Antifa” is rooted in the knowledge that the regular politicians won’t move the country to the Left as far as they want because it would rock the crony capitalist boat.



by 16 posted onby Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business, Remember Pastor Niemoller)

To: Nextrush

Just a buncha BS isn’t it?



by 17 posted onby Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)

To: Nextrush

Nobody here said the GOP = Conservatism. What is important is what the GOP is not: a rat party of too-cool Stalinists, communists and anarchists that openly reject the principles of our Declaration of Independence.



To: Jacquerie

The headline should say: “one wing of the Uniparty has 95 year high of seats.”



To: Jacquerie

“You have a fertile imagination. “ How’s this for an imagination? Picture a couple of billionaires with a war room and a few hundred employees detailing and tracking every subtle nuance. Those detailed commissions, that’s where the bribes would start with appropriately vague wording wordsmithed through the dark hearts of a dozen well trained and knowledgeable lawyers. What we’re talking about is essentially a battle plan. On the conservative side a few meetings and some suggestions. On the other side... Bond villains. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. I just don’t see anything on the conservative side that is likely to be as big, well funded or unethical as what the other side has already proven it can field. Okay, color me skeptical. But there is too much at stake for both sides for conservatives to risk a convention of states. I’d prefer to go with what we have and make it work better. With the political clout we have now, we could make it work.



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