Guest post by Alex Newman
The push for altering the U.S. Constitution is gathering momentum on the right and the left, with potentially catastrophic or even deadly consequences for the American Republic.
The push for a constitutional convention under Article V of the U.S. Constitution is gathering momentum on the right and the left, with potentially catastrophic or even deadly consequences for what remains of the greatest republic in human history. The red flags are everywhere. And the future of Americans’ God-given rights hangs in the balance.
Right now, the Constitution is still technically the “supreme Law of the Land,” as Article VI makes clear. Every public official swears an oath—usually with a hand on the Bible—to uphold and defend it. That means much of the lawless behavior coming from the federal government that has so outraged Americans of all political persuasions is unconstitutional and illegitimate.
The forces responsible for the escalating unconstitutional abuse of America know full well their lawless schemes are not authorized by the charter that created the federal government. Therefore, they are chomping at the bit to change it—or even trash it—and forever burn the bridge that could lead the United States back to the liberty, prosperity, and peace made possible by that precious Constitution for well over two centuries.
In a recent piece for Chronicles by attorney J. Eric Wise, he offered qualified praise for California’s far-left Governor Gavin Newsom (and his hair) for being “pointed in the right direction” with the recent call for a constitutional convention. Even though Wise described Newsom’s proposed gun-control amendment as “misguided,” he nevertheless argued the United States “needs, badly, a convention of states that will consider a broad overhaul of the Constitution.”
Such a convention would be a massive gamble at best, with virtually no rewards and unfathomable risks. That is why the late Justice Antonin Scalia explained in a 2014 interview that he was firmly against the idea. “I certainly would not want a Constitutional Convention,” he responded when asked how he would like to amend the Constitution. “I mean, whoa! Who knows what would come out of that?”
At worst, it could be the final nail in the coffin for the free United States of America, a blow from which the nation would never recover. With this one mistake, the amazing heritage of the nation could go up in smoke forever, making this generation responsible for frittering away the legacy bequeathed by centuries of toil and blood shed by America’s forefathers.
Of course, many of Wise’s observations are true. The nation is currently experiencing dangerous division. And the Constitution is clearly not working as intended. It is also true that the government does not obey the Constitution anymore. In fact, politicians barely even bother pretending to follow it anymore, and few young Americans know much about it.
But the solution lies not in changing or potentially even throwing out that Constitution—a unique document in world history enshrining God-given rights that nearly a million Americans have sacrificed their very lives to defend. Indeed, most of the problems proponents of a Constitutional Convention point to result from violations of the Constitution that could be fixed by enforcement, not defects that could be fixed with amendments.
Even in a best-case scenario where conservatives, against all odds, are able to add a few good amendments, the argument falls flat. If the feds do not obey the Constitution now, how would adding new amendments for them to ignore change that problem?
Advocates of this “Convention of States” continually reassure conservatives that any dangerous amendments would be stopped by states during the ratification process. Yet the only other time such a convention was held—1787—delegates threw out the whole Articles of Confederation. They also decided to decrease the number of states needed to ratify constitutional changes, from unanimous consent to a three-fourths majority.
What would stop the next convention from moving the goalposts again? After all, they will say, the three-fourths requirement is anti-democratic and outdated. Plus, it was enshrined by “old dead white guys who owned slaves!”
Newsom, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, and the anti-American talking heads on network TV would repeat the talking points ad nauseum. And the new Constitution would be rammed through using whatever new ratification process the convention concocted—50 percent plus one, anybody? Considering the state of election integrity, this is a recipe for cataclysm.
Thankfully, the 1787 Constitution ratified under the new method ended up being a splendid document. Not perfect, obviously, but brilliant nonetheless. The principles it enshrined are timeless. And the understanding of human nature and human history displayed by its framers is unrivaled by even America’s greatest contemporary statesmen.
Would whatever new Constitution emerges from the next constitutional convention be as good—or even acceptable? Where are the James Madisons and George Washingtons of today who would lead such a convention? There are few such leaders today, if any—and what are the odds that such leaders would even be allowed to participate in, much less guide, a new convention?
The fact that Newsom and other far-left extremists seeking to disarm Americans and sexualize children in government schools see a constitutional convention as a route to victory should cause every sensible conservative to recoil in horror at the prospect. Are Newsom and California Democrats stupid? Or do they know that a convention is their path to total power, unrestrained by the current Constitution?
The reason the nation is so out of control today is not some defect in the Constitution. The real problem is that it is not being obeyed, because We The People have allowed it to be snubbed. The solution, then, is not to change the Constitution or even throw it out, but to obey it. Unfortunately for those looking for simplistic solutions, there is no silver bullet. Only an educated and informed electorate can force elected representatives to respect their oath of office to the Constitution. The path to restoring America and the rule of law begins with education. We can only hope the current Constitution can hold as that process takes place.
Mark Levin is for it. So , no way , no how , no sale,
There are few such leaders today, if any—and what are the odds that such leaders would even be allowed to participate in, much less guide, a new convention?
The few such leaders today are unaninous to NOT have a CC- they all know better.
Mark Levin first changed the pledge of allegiance from the One nation under God, to One Nation under Zog. At least in his own mind. Makes sense.
The Constitution is dead. Activist courts write laws. The President(s) EO’s are used in leu of laws. K street writes laws. None of these laws are constitutional but are issued and enforced none the less. The only ones NOT writing laws are the Congress members and Senators. They just pass the laws that K street write.
The Bill of Rights is shit on by every three letter agency and law enforcement department across the entire nation.
The Constitution is DEAD.
The constitution protects the right of all people in the uSA to contract freely.
If they should contract poor deals for themselves in their day to day lives, whose fault is that?
They misunderstood freedom and signed it away for for various permissions and benefits.
They then become absolutely blind to the fact that they contracted in EXCESS of the constitution with dot gov agencies for these various permission and benefit traps.
And that is where most live.
Babbling on endlessly about “muh constitution” whilst deliberately ignoring the absolute fact that most contracted their “protections” away for the dubious permission/benefit.
[mic drop]
I didn’t, but I still have to live with it because of others that did
true that!!
You can’t contract at birth, that is fraud. You have a warped sense of blame. You sound like a statist apologist pig.
The laws that K-Street writes an CONgress passes are administered by the Executive branch who write the implementation “rules”. When you complain to your CONgresscritter, they point to the Executive branch and tell you there is nothing they can do about how the law is implemented.
In effect, the country is being run by a huge unnamed bureaucracy implementing laws written by lobbyists.
True dat…But we can reverse that, and will after the financial collapse…
There will be many vying for power after a financial collapse and no one knows who will win. When Imperial Russia fell the provisional government were the favorites, the Mensheviks the majority socialist party,but the Bolsheviks won. Why? Though small and less popular they had armed organized cells all over the country that took over banks and government offices. They also lied, “all power to the Soviets” which would be akin to our town officials. It ended up all power to the Supreme Soviet and the Soviet dictator.
No one knows who will take power, but I doubt it will be good for us average citizens. Be careful what you wish for.
Not quite…Clarence Thomas has saved our gun rights, and the majority has made some other important decisions….like the Harvard discrimination case…
Amen I couldn’t have said it better.
The author makes a good point by suggesting the Constitution can provide a bridge back to what loyal Americans want the country to be like. How we get there is yet to be determined.
It all makes little difference at this point. America’s society is gone, on the whole. That’s a tipping point, because everything after that is irrelevant.
You can bounce back from economic hardship, with strong communities and cultures. You can lead revolutions against tyrannical governments with a united people holding common values.
But social collapse destroys everything. Always has, likely always will. America and most of the West is collapsing socially. The only metric that truly matters. Societies are the beating heart of political bodies. The oil of economic engines. Your oil gets too dirty, your engine dont work. Your heart fails, you die.
(Copy, steal, and share all of my insights, at any time. I make them for ‘you people’ out there.)
What really needs to occur at this point… All of you need to stop bickering over minor differences, and come together. Otherwise, none of you will survive the upcoming battlefields. You are all too weak individually, even in groups.
A single twig can be snapped with one hand.
A few twigs together might require two hands.
But a large enough bundle of sticks can’t be broken.
Become unbreakable.
When I was wandering the cities, towns, highways, forests, mountains, deserts and canyons of the West, I’d sometimes lose everything I owned (friends, family, possessions). Excepting the clothes on my back. Whether it was getting robbed, hitting rock-bottom with substances, random misfortune, burning bridges, etc.; something funny always occured whenever I had nothing: I became totally unbreakable. I couldn’t get lower. Life couldnt get any worse. New, previously unfathomable pathways opened up- and not always immediately either. Idk how to make that not sound corny, cliché, or irrelevant. But it’s very relevant.
Since we’re on this frequency… The pen is mightier than the sword! The most formidable foes can be destroyed with thoughts, ideas, or even passion. You are never powerless.
…Most of you would refuse to let most people into your tribe anyway. But, your tribe simply couldn’t conquer the others in any tangible fashion anymore. Part of that is my fault, and I’m sorry, but the entire conservative sphere as a whole is stronger. Given enough time, my tribe wouldve conquered all of yours utterly, even if there were only half a dozen of us… but instead, I came in peace and shared (social) technologies. Not that I’m some superpowerful savior or some such… far from it. But, yknow, we’ve set the temperature in the room, and it gets felt across so many different boundaries.
Many of you are still very backwards, but lots of places have adapted at whiplash-inducing speed. That’s impressive.
Anyway. If you absorb only one thing from this post, it should be this: embrace the coalition.
…As you were
-OfftheHingeZ
Why not, it’s no longer followed anymore. The new one would
Not be followed either.
That’s where you’re wrong. But, I suppose it doesn’t matter either way, America is dead, limited government is dead, the rule of law is dead, individual rights are dead, and soon we’ll be dead … or enslaved.
Not unless you let them…
Them killing you is not a if you let them, it is a they have the power and you don’t.
I guarantee you that the left will fight to the death to take our rights away . The right will let them. Do not change the Constitution , follow the Constitution we have.
C’est la vie America, That’s just how it goes.
Everybody repeat after me.
The only rights that you really have are the ones that you are willing to die for. If you’re not willing to die for them, then you never had any rights.
+1000
Show me on the doll where the government touched you.
Silly me.
I thought the only rights you had were the ones you were willing to kill for.
I’m not up for that dying shit.
What a STUPID article.
That BOX has already been opened.
Where the HELL do you live where you don’t know this already?
Can this ” void ” The Constitution ? Is USA a corporation too ?
The CONstitution was itself a coup-d’etat. Even if it were legit, then:
“Think what it implies when you say that a country needs leaders. In your day-to-day life, you interact with all sorts of other individuals. And that’s all society is: the collective name for lots of INDIVIDUALS. But for some inexplicable reason, we’re taught to believe that one huge, arbitrarily chosen assortment of individuals (the “citizens” of one human livestock farm–I mean, “country”) need some control freaks acting as intermediaries in order to interact with a different arbitrarily chosen assortment of individuals (the “citizens” of some other human livestock farm–I mean, “country”). Because gee, how could I and some random person in the middle of China possibly leave each other alone if we didn’t each have a gang of narcissistic sociopaths claiming to “represent” us? Oh, wait a minute. That’s exactly how and why pretty much ALL wars happen: because different gangs of power-happy psychos pit their pawns against each other in violent conflict, while claiming to “represent” subsets of humanity. One more example of how “government” is a problem posing as its own solution.” ― Larken Rose
“No political ritual can alter morality. No election can make an evil act into a good act. If it is bad for you to do something, then it is bad for those in “government” to do it.”
― Larken Rose, The Most Dangerous Superstition
“How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.”
― Walter E. Williams, All It Takes Is Guts: A Minority View
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.”
― Lysander Spooner
The Reluctant Anarchist, by Joe Sobran:
http://www.sobran.com/reluctant.shtml
“Hans-Hermann Hoppe . . . argued that no constitution could restrain the state. Once its monopoly of force was granted legitimacy, constitutional limits became mere fictions it could disregard; nobody could have the legal standing to enforce those limits. The state itself would decide, by force, what the constitution ‘meant,’ steadily ruling in its own favor and increasing its own power.”
Or a sales pitch “open for business”
You pulled out the Larkin Rose quotes. Nice
Duh! It’s an insane idea, where politicians would eliminate most of our rights…Secession would be far better…
Once it’s amended, then they’ll definitely finally observe it, honest injun.
/s
Why is that sarcastic?
That’s exactly the point of having a CC. In the minds of the mindless, a rewritten constitution will confer legitimacy on what TPTB want to do.
Hey, its that stupid “Anonymous” again, you know the one that has no idea how tyranny works.
The Constitution is working as intended. The executive officers, Congress and the Judiciary is not
They swore to uphold our Constitution and ate not. They lied. Whether they rewrite it or not makes no difference, the abuses will continue either way. Yes the Republicans are marginally better than the Democrats, but when you come right down to it, there is no real difference. The uniparty rules.
Respectfully, I wish people would forget about the “Democrat / Republican” farce. They are both organized crime organizations hiding behind “non-profit” status when in fact all they are concerned about is profit through graft, corruption and out right theft. Neither party will ever fix anything as the fix is already in for them.
Reminds me of this…
I’m not sure it really matters if “The Great Taking” happens first. (The book was posted by Glock-N-Load at TBP earlier as a five part series.) I just ran across a review by Ellen Brown at Unz.com that might be worth revisiting….
“The Great Taking”: How They Plan to Own It All
The derivatives bubble is often estimated to exceed one quadrillion dollars (a quadrillion is 1,000 trillion). The entire GDP of the world is estimated at $105 trillion, or 10% of one quadrillion; and the collective wealth of the world is an estimated $360 trillion. Clearly, there is not enough collateral anywhere to satisfy all the derivative claims. The majority of derivatives now involve interest rate swaps, and interest rates have shot up. The bubble looks ready to pop…
Who were the intrepid counterparties signing up to take the other side of these risky derivative bets? Initially, it seems, they were banks –led by four mega-banks, JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. But according to a 2023 book called The Great Taking by veteran hedge fund manager David Rogers Webb, counterparty risk on all of these bets is ultimately assumed by an entity called the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), through its nominee Cede & Co. (See also Greg Morse, “Who Owns America? Cede & DTCC,” and A. Freed, “Who Really Owns Your Money? Part I, The DTCC”). Cede & Co. is now the owner of record of all of our stocks, bonds, digitized securities, mortgages, and more; and it is seriously under-capitalized, holding capital of only $3.5 billion, clearly not enough to satisfy all the potential derivative claims. Webb thinks this is intentional.
What happens if the DTCC goes bankrupt? Under The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) of 2005, derivatives have “super-priority” in bankruptcy. (The BAPCPA actually protects the banks and derivative claimants rather than consumers; it was the same act that eliminated bankruptcy protection for students.) Derivative claimants don’t even need to go through the bankruptcy court but can simply nab the collateral from the bankrupt estate, leaving nothing for the other secured creditors (including state and local governments) or the banks’ unsecured creditors (including us, the depositors). And in this case the “bankrupt estate” – the holdings of the DTCC/Cede & Co. – includes all of our stocks, bonds, digitized securities, mortgages, and more.
It sounds like conspiracy theory, but it’s all laid out in the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), tested in precedent, and validated by court rulings. The UCC is a privately-established set of standardized rules for transacting business, which has been ratified by all 50 states and includes key provisions that have been “harmonized” with the laws of other countries in the Western orbit. The UCC makes boring reading and is anything but clear, but Webb has diligently picked through the obscure legalese and demonstrates that the amorphous “they” have it all locked up. They can take everything in one fell swoop, without even going to court.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-great-taking-how-they-plan-to-own-it-all/
Spooner said it best;
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
David Webb, The Great Taking
I met David at the recent conference in Sweden. His research explains the financial underpinnings of the Great Reset.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/david-webb-the-great-taking
The Great Taking (text)
https://docplayer.net/234739593-The-great-taking-david-rogers-webb.html
In short, “our” assets are owned by the system.
That silver bullet solution might be our best bet; If used where appropriate, (see list above)
To even consider a constitutional convention is pure insanity !
To think of the damage these SELF SERVING pathetic parasites elected, appointed and hired would do to the fragments left of what was OUR REPUBLIC is a nightmare no real American could survive without a fight
I agree, but maybe that is just the reason to have one. It isn’t like there has been much of a fight about anything else that has happened.
The first constitutional convention gave us what we have now. Why have another? Because human nature has changed in 240 years?
After the Constitution comes the law of the jungle. The only law that those of colour respect.
save us majick parchment, you’re our only dope!
If it happens, it’s obvious the 1st, 2nd and 4th would be removed completely.
And Ninth and Tenth.
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https://fija.org/
They don’t believe in God so they don’t believe in “God given rights”. George Carlin was chilling when he remarked his view on this. The left is willing to murder to take rights away, are we willing to do the same to see that they aren’t?
Read ‘Twilight’s Last Gleaming’ by John Michael Greer…
The fact that neocon controlled opposition tools like Levin are for it is all I need to know to know this is a TERRIBLE idea. Thanks for posting this. Excellent piece.
The second constitution of the USA was ratified by all the states, although it took some carrots and sticks to accomplish that. Some states were convinced to ratify by a commitment to quickly accept amendments to satisfy their concerns, the ten amendments that are termed the “Bill of Rights”. The few holdouts were threatened with commercial discrimination if they refused and ended up independent of the new union. It’s possible that a constitutional convention today might result in a peaceful splitting up of the country if the “blue states’ ratify one constitution and the “red states” ratify another constitution, especially if there is no real desire to wage a bloody civil war.