We want state legislatures to call for a Constitutional Convention
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As these are very old posts, I will simply make a few statements to correct some errors of them. First of all FOAVC does not "claim" anything regarding the applications. Instead we show photographic copies of the 750 applications submitted by the st…
You are 100% right. My apologies to you and the group if I sent anybody else on a wild goose chase. I have deleted my post so as to not mislead anyone. So much for my budding career as a constitutional scholar! I took at face value the reporting of…
Thanks Vince,
If I'm correct, the bill was referred to committee where it died. I cannot find any law that came of the bill. I searched the Govt printing office and all I could find is a refernce to this bill in the House http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/p…
Thomas,
Text of the bill is below.
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S 214 IS
102d CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 214
To provide procedures for calling Federal constitutional conventions under article V…
Jon,
So identical language and a 7 year shelf-life is the key. Presumably then The Bill of Federalism provides the "identical language framework" and this will need to be petitioned by 2/3 of the states within a 7-year timeframe. Correct?
Vince wrote: The Founding Document is silent about a Convention for Proposing Amendments, except for establishing its existence and the criterion of its call by Congress. In 1965, a commission of the American Bar Association laid out what could be d…
This group seems strange to me. They seem to want to hold a convention for a convention's sake. I can't see to find any concrete proposals as to how they intend to modify the Constitution. They give the perception that a Convention would be a free f…
What the Friends of the Article V Convention are counting are many different petitions with different proposed amendments. It is more meaningful to count the number that are demanding each specific amendment. For example, a leading proposed amendmen…
Michael,
There is an organization called Friend Of Article V Convention (FOAVC.org) which claims that already all 50 states have submitted calls for an Article V convention which have simply been ignored by Congress. If this is true, and their docu…
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Michael,
There is an organization called Friend Of Article V Convention (FOAVC.org) which claims that already all 50 states have submitted calls for an Article V convention which have simply been ignored by Congress. If this is true, and their documentation suggests that it is, what do we do now? How do we mandate Congress to do do their job?
Thomas
There is an organization called Friend Of Article V Convention (FOAVC.org) which claims that already all 50 states have submitted calls for an Article V convention which have simply been ignored by Congress. If this is true, and their documentation suggests that it is, what do we do now? How do we mandate Congress to do do their job?
Thomas
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