How Conservatives Are Trying to Rewrite the Constitution

[Correll]

They want to rewrite it so we're so weak that China and most of the world will be able to walk all over us. These people are anti-federalist assholes that failed 200 years ago and their arguments are a joke.

What's their number one argument and your rebuttal?

 

[JustMeHere]

The groups behind this re-energized push are a who's-who of the far right. There's the Convention of States Project, or COS, an organization dedicated to calling a convention, but also the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, an enterprise backed by the billionaire Koch brothers. While they pay lip service to the balanced budget amendment, these organizations have cited a broader goal: Reducing the power of the federal government. ALEC posted a model application for a convention. The model refers to "the solemn duty of the States to protect the liberty of our people" not through a single balanced budget amendment but "by proposing Amendments," plural. Potential ALEC add-ons could include, among others, a federal term-limit amendment and an amendment allowing states to repeal federal laws and regulations.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/how-conservatives-could-rewrite-the-constitution

Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment Poses Serious Risks
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And how are they going to make a balanced budget, take away all social programs, and give to the elites. I mean all, all of the people T put in to head the Depts are destroying them.

We will become a society of the haves and the workers bees, just like all dictator countries. The poor will get poorer and the rich just get richer, it has already started, and now the push is to finish it. The new tax plan will insure this, final redistribution of wealth to the top. Get reading for the biggest screwing of all time.

So you're saying adding debt every year to astronomical levels is good. Exactly how?

 

[regent]

I wonder how many pages the Constitution would have, if it had to be amended for every nuance? As I remember the Alabama Constitution has over 800 amendments to its Constitution. Ours has twenty-seven.
Perhaps one of the first amendments that should have been added to the federal constitution was one that prohibited the Court from making Constitutional decisions?