Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	Time for a constitutional convention?
Date:	7/21/2022 9:06:27 AM

If you please, from any of you who would like to participate, give rational pros and cons for the efficacy of a constitutional convention.

 From the Constitution for the United States of America - Article. V.

“… on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof…”

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Time for a constitutional convention?
Date:	7/21/2022 9:51:15 AM

I think right now in this environment you couldn't get 2/3rds of states to agree on anything.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Time for a constitutional convention?
Date:	7/21/2022 10:01:09 AM

The unbelievable has occurred,  I agree with MM.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Time for a constitutional convention?
Date:	7/21/2022 10:46:52 AM

Kind of a no brainer.  The issue is it is not red state versus blue states.......it's blue cities/counties versus the rest of the country.  All blue states are controlled by large cities...maybe with the exception of California....but probably not even there.

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	Then the question becomes
Date:	7/21/2022 10:53:52 AM

How are you going to restore the republic?

from the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

“- -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, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. - -”

1. Reestablish Constitutional Compliance by Electoral process?
2. Amend the Constitution as set forth in Article. V?
3. Vigilantism?
4. Civil war?

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Then the question becomes
Date:	7/21/2022 11:29:19 AM

We certainly are blessed to have had forefathers with such wisdom and foresight.  I would say we couldn't get 2/3 of America to agree on just about anything....but then pops up Joe Biden's (dis)approval rating....

I would say that the best thing is for everyone to chill, take a deep breath, and consider all the things we agree on,. then address our differences one by one, but it seems the progressives are so hyper-committed to their goals, and willing to use such extreme measures to achieve them, that such a detente just isn't possible.  Really sad.