OPINION: ARTICLE V CONVENTION OR CONVENTION OF STATES?

We the People have lived by it since 1787.

However, while we are distracted by multiple burning issues such as the massive invasion at our boarders, massive wide spread election fraud and voting machines bought and paid for by enemies of America, runaway inflation, crippling gas prices, food shortages, farming disasters, destruction of food processing plants, supply-chain disruptions, business forced to close due to unconstitutional lock downs or government interventions, it’s easy to see that America is being attacked from within, but, it’s more difficult to understand just how our very Government, as we know it, could be eliminated, and with it our freedom, by the so called, “Convention of States,” which does not exist or by an Article 5 Convention.

There are only two ways of proposing amendments to the Constitution (see Article V).

The first way is by Congress. The Constitution specifies how this will happen and how the amendments proposed by Congress are ratified.

Through this process, Congress remains under and confined by our Constitution.

However, the second process of proposing amendments to our Constitution is achieved by Congress calling a Convention to do so, under Article V, after two thirds of the state legislatures have made application for such.

Delegates are then chosen according to the process Congress decides. These delegates are the sovereign representatives of the people, which elevates delegates of this Convention with powers that are above the current Constitution.

How so? Well, the hierarchy of power as recognized by our founding fathers is God the highest authority, We the People, the Constitution of the United States of America, and branches of government derived thereof.

We see that at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the delegation rose above the first established government, the Articles of the Confederation, set aside that government, and established an entirely new Constitution and then even ratified it by the very rules they established at that Convention (and not by the former rules of ratification under the Articles of Confederation – see Article VII of the US Constitution).

Therefore, our founding fathers set the precedent for overthrowing their existing government with a new form of government, which was their right as declared in the very recent Declaration of Independence, “… governments are instituted by men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed: that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government…”     

There has not been an Article V Convention since the last Constitutional Convention held in 1787, though it has been attempted in the past.

All Amendments to our Constitution since its ratification in 1789 were initiated by Congress. Since the calling of an Article V Convention has failed thus far, a verbal repackaging was created by the proponents of the Convention and the name was intentionally changed to “Convention of States”, as though the states have power at this Convention, while making this mode of overthrowing of our government sound more appealing.

It is deception!

Currently, the masses believe that the States will hold power in such a Convention and that the Convention can be held for only specific purposes such as amending our Constitution to include such things as a balanced budget, term limits and such. It is even stated in the 2022 platform of the Republican Party: “37. Article 5 Convention of States: The Texas Legislature shall extend the call for a Convention of States to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.”

The only power given to the States under Article V is their power to make application to Congress requesting Congress to call the Article V Convention.

The states DO NOT have the power to call the Convention and there is no such thing as a Convention of States.

The truth is, once this Pandora’s Box is opened, and a Convention is called by Congress, the chosen delegates to this convention will have the unlimited power to propose amendments to the Constitution as they see fit including replacing it in its entirety and ratifying it by new means as they did in 1788!  There is no limit to their powers. The precedent for such was set by our founding fathers.

Further, should an Article V Convention be held, the idea that delegates could withdraw from a convention in opposition to the decisions being made at the Convention is irrelevant and would have no bearing on the continuation of the Convention.

In 1787, when delegates representing three states left the Convention, the Convention continued without them and the number of states needed to ratify the Constitution was changed from 13 to 9.

An Article V Convention stands to be the way our government, as we know it today, could be completely overthrown without firing a single shot. An overthrow from within!

Article V does not specify from where the delegates to the Convention shall be chosen. This ambiguity leaves the door open for Congress to enact Article I, Section VIII which states: “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for the carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”

Therefore, Congress, who calls the Convention, not the States, decides from where the delegates to the Article V Convention shall be selected.  Perhaps, it will be from the States Legislatures. In SB21, Texas has outlined how its delegates shall be selected IF Congress gives them the right to do so.

But, have the other states done so?  Will Congress allow the states the right to select their own delegates?  By what manner?  How many?

At least when the 1787 Constitutional Convention was held, it was comprised of faithful God-fearing patriots who had come through the revolution against Britain and won our freedom from that tyrannical government and created a new form of government designed to protect our individual freedom and sovereignty and limit the power of government in our lives.

Can you even imagine what the outcome of such a Convention today could be when every day we are being lied to and manipulated by the mainstream media and our politicians, when our liberties and sovereign personal freedoms are violated, when the rights secured under the current Constitution are trampled and our freedom of speech is censored by our own Government, due process is ignored, our right to bear arms is challenged and threatened, and illegal search and seizures happen to even our former President by a politicized justice system?

Do you honestly want delegates from some of these liberal states who have turned their states into a wasteland weighing in on amendments?

What if they decide to throw out the old and bring in a new Constitution completely? It could happen! It happened in 1787!

Are you aware that there are at least three groups currently with proposed constitutions waiting on such an opportunity? We were very blessed then by these enlightened founding fathers, but what about now?

Or, what if Congress decided to choose the Delegates from Congress? Or from who knows where? And, would anyone of us be allowed a say on these amendments or a new Constitution? Probably not!!

We are living under tyranny and we’ve accepted it instead of demanding that our existing Constitution be enforced. Therefore, the existing application of the States for what they have been misled to call a “Convention of States” is a Trojan Horse. We have been led to believe it will fix things by introducing such things as general term limits, or limiting the power of our government, which is what I think most of us want. But, why not work for election integrity in your state and vote out these career politicians who are harming our country? You see, you must be careful what you ask for. You can’t just simply open Pandora’s Box and expect a pleasant outcome.

I wholeheartedly agree with the 2022 Republican Party Platform which states: “13. Keep Oath to the Constitution: We call for all who swear the oath to support and maintain the limitations and clear meaning of the United States Constitution.”

That is why I am requesting that my State Senator Brian Birdwell and the Texas legislature rescind Texas’ application for the Convention of States (which does not exist) or an Article V Convention. I hope you will do the same. Let’s work to enforce our current Constitution, which has been the most remarkable God ordained Government in all of the World.

We all must work as hard as possible to show our current politicians that we demand they support and defend the Constitution which is the oath of their office and remind them that they work for us, We the People!

And may God Bless Texas! And God Bless America!