Convening a Constitutional Convention . . . Mark Levin expressing his own thoughts.

[johnwk]

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Mr. Levin wants more than a balanced budget amendment. He says we need to control spending, which I am in full agreement with. But our existing Constitution already limits spending to the list of particulars found beneath Article 1, Section 8 Clause 1, for which Congress, by the terms of our constitution, was granted power to lay and collect taxes.

I cannot understand the logic of wanting to “control the bureaucracy”, and “spending”,( which is already controlled by the terms of our existing constitution), by wanting to call a convention to amend the constitution which is not being followed. Is that not what Mr. Levin is advocating?

Mr. Levin correctly points out we need to “control the debt”. Indeed, Congress adds to the debt, year, after year, after year. Was our Founders thinking not clear regarding debt?

And what procedure is found in a number of our State Ratification Documents to deal with a deficiency caused by Congress’s borrowing? Let us take a look, e.g., at the Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Massachusetts; February 6, 1788:

”Fourthly, That Congress do not lay direct Taxes but when the Monies arising from the Impost & Excise are insufficient for the publick exigencies nor then until Congress shall have first made a requisition upon the States to assess levy & pay their respective proportions of such Requisition agreeably to the Census fixed in the said Constitution; in such way & manner as the Legislature of the States shall think best, & in such case if any State shall neglect or refuse to pay its proportion pursuant to such requisition then Congress may assess & levy such State’s proportion together with interest thereon at the rate of Six per cent per annum from the time of payment prescribed in such requisition…”

And there you have it, our Founder’s remedy, which began being promoted while Mr. Levin was part of Ronald Reagan’s Administration (currently being promoted as the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment) . . . a remedy which is far different than calling a convention to rewrite our constitution because our constitution’s current terms and provisions are not being enforced.

Please, don’t get me wrong. I like Mr. Levin, especially his God given fiery gift of gab ___ a gift which I believe would go a long way to convince the American people to demand the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment become part of our Constitution which, unlike every other BBA, would effectively stop Congress from adding to our national debt, year after year and create, if adopted, a very real moment of accountability when Congress borrows to meet its expenses which then requires each State’s Congressional Delegation to return home with a bill in hand for their State to pay out of its own State Treasury, and their State Legislature and Governor, quickly learn, there is no free lunch coming from Washington.

Our constitution is a miracle, created by the hand of God through those who met in Philadelphia in 1787. Let us not be so eager to open the door to a convention and provide “ . . .a dangerous opportunity of sapping the very foundations of the fabric . . . ” as warned by James Madison SOURCE

JWK

“We often give enemies the means of our own destruction.” -- Aesop.

 

[shockedcanadian]

You need term limits for.members of congress.

 

[Votto]

You need term limits for.members of congress.

Indeed.

You need both term limits for the Deep State and a balanced budget amendment because no doubt the veterans in Congress will simply try to ignore the Constitution like they do now.

Even though Congress may try to ignore the new amendment to balance to books, it at least is a much needed start to the process that is necessary.

First you provide a legal way to amend the problem, then wait for Congress to illegally ignore it, then you have them!

 

[Natural Citizen]

Thing about term limits is that they'd basically be a means for no good, dirty, rotten, filthy, stinking conniving scoundrels to get in, do their damage and get out real fast, making it even easier and more convenient for them.

Especially with so many foreign and special interests infiltrating American governance these days.

Of course, the career politicans are no damned good either. It's a catch-22, in my view.

 

[fncceo]

You need term limits for.members of congress.

I'm thinking 15 minutes would be good ... just long enough for a photo op.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

MAGA does not want a constitutional convention.

 

[22lcidw]

MAGA does not want a constitutional convention.

You keep thinking that way. More and more money will move to red areas. Even if they turn purple if people do not heed the warnings. It gives time for citizens from the oldest generations to live well before they pass on and the real terror starts.

 

[johnwk]

Trump getting it done without the danger of a constitutional convention.​

Just for the record, I certainly agree with “The Great one” as Sean Hannity often refers to Mark Levin SOURCE that Donald Trump has the potential to be the most conservative president in American history SOURCE.

And note that President Trump is getting many things done, to restore America’s greatness, without the danger of a constitutional convention being called.

The fact is, our existing Constitution already provides the necessary tools to make America great again, and Trump is certainly using them, which includes the authority to levy tariffs at our borders edge.

JWK

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I'm thinking 15 minutes would be good ... just long enough for a photo op.

Biden destroyed the economy in less than time than that.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Biden destroyed the economy in less than time than that.

Inflation, which Biden brought way down, is already going up in the first two weeks of this term.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Inflation, which Biden brought way down, is already going up in the first two weeks of this term.

Inflation is never going to go down unless government decreases spending.

This massive amount of debt helps justify Trumps tariffs as he can raise a few hundred billion a year through them and either pay down the debt, give money back to citizens and developments, etc.

One of the biggest reasons why I have been pushing for America to cut the debt is so that the West can survive and Canada in particular (because I live here) won't be the burden that forces the U.S to act against in one form or another.

The elite don't listen to people like me in Canada. We don't have the Rand Pauls, Viveks, Musks etc here.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

This massive amount of debt helps justify Trumps tariffs as he can raise a few hundred billion a year through them and either pay down the debt, give money back to citizens and developments, etc.

More significantly, it allows American production to compete price-wise. Increased American production ultimately brings down prices through competition and that expands the economy.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

More significantly, it allows American production to compete price-wise. Increased American production ultimately brings down prices through competition and that expands the economy.

No, it won't.

Why? The American wood products industry sold scoreds of lumber mill operations and products of factories to stop competition with a far more competitive Canadian wood products industry.

Now they will sell even more and prices remain the same or go even higher.

 

[Independent thinker]

Thing about term limits is that they'd basically be a means for no good, dirty, rotten, filthy, stinking conniving scoundrels to get in, do their damage and get out real fast, making it even easier and more convenient for them.

Especially with so many foreign and special interests infiltrating American governance these days.

Of course, the career politicans are no damned good either. It's a catch-22, in my view.

Absolutely. The term limit crowd really haven't thought things through. They are all like democrats in thinking that if something sounds good, just do it.

 

[johnwk]

Absolutely. The term limit crowd really haven't thought things through. They are all like democrats in thinking that if something sounds good, just do it.

The term-limit crowd is very much like the "line-item veto" crowd which wants such power delegated to the president because it "sounds good".

Under the line-item proposed power, the president is granted extraordinary power to withhold funding for whatever he so desires which not only defies appropriations made by law and undermines the legislative “sausage” making process that created the bill, but as we were warned:


''The negative of the governor was constantly made use of to extort money. No good law whatever could be passed without a private bargain with him. An increase of salary or some donation, was always made a condition; till at last, it became the regular practice to have orders in his favor on the treasury presented along with the bills to be signed, so that he might actually receive the former before he should sign the latter. When the Indians were scalping the Western people, and notice of it arrived, the concurrence of the governor in the means of self-defense could not be got, until it was agreed that the people were to fight for the security of his property, whilst he was to have no share of the burdens of taxation.'' ___ SEE: Benjamin Franklin, June 4 of the Constitutional Convention

Sounding "good" does not make it so,