17 States Pass Resolutions Strip Federal Govt. of Power Over States

Nebraska and Wisconsin are the two most recent of the 17 states that have now passed resolutions to hold an Article V convention that look to clip back the rights of the federal government over citizens.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Seventeen of the necessary 34 states needed to trigger an Article V convention have voted for the process, making strides toward a potential reduction in federal authority.
  • According to The Washington Times, the push is a primarily conservative one, but one that is continually growing.
  • The Convention of States Action President, Mark Meckler, says he believes it’s possible that Democrats could also be attracted to the cause due to issues they experienced with the Trump White House.
  • In addition to the recently added states, traction is being made in Kansas, South Carolina, West Virginia, and even deep-blue Massachusetts
COMMENTS FROM EXPERTS:
  • “Look, on both sides of the aisle, people believe that Washington, D.C., is completely out of control,” Meckler said. “They might believe it for different reasons, but when it was a Trump administration, Democrats were furious, and when it was a Biden administration, Republicans were furious. Everybody knows D.C. is out of control, and everybody wants D.C. out of their business.”
  • “An Article V convention would be a dangerous threat to the United States Constitution,” Geoff Foster, executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts, said at a Jan. 7 hearing. “There is no language in the U.S. Constitution to limit a convention to just one issue, and it is widely understood that a convention, once called, will be able to consider any amendment that the delegates want to consider.”
  • “I hear this all the time, that we’re going to destroy the Second Amendment, that California’s going to take away the Second Amendment,” said Mr. Meckler. “I just do the math for people: If it takes 38 states to ratify, that means it takes only 13 states to stop it. That means just one house in each of the most conservative 13 states in America.”
BACKGROUND:
  • The Convention of States Action is looking to build a self-governing grassroots army in America, according to the organizer.
  • In 2013 the group had grown to 5.2 million members and in the past two years they were involved in 250 races, including the recall of school border members in Louden County Virginia.
  • The group expects to be involved in 400 elections in the upcoming midterm elections, according to The Washington Times. 

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