What State Legislatures must retain is their Constitutional sovereign authority under Article V. If this nation has any hope of restoring our Republic, then State Legislatures must not allow Congress, Courts, Executive Branch or delegates at a Convention to define their Article V sovereignty for them. In all the confusion and debate about Article V Conventions over the last several months, it will be easy for legislators to confuse the authority they have to make Application directing Congress to convene a Convention, with the authority they have to control the deliberations at a Convention. This is not a subtle point. If the Legislatures allow delegates they send to a Convention to function as free agents and not Ambassadors, then they will have surrendered their sovereign authority to delegates and the Convention process will be forever mired in politics. For the first time since the Constitutional Convention, States have an opportunity to be respected as partners in government, not subjects to Federal power. When the Legislatures adopt the Single Issue Amendment process, the Convention will be safe, quick and successful. They alone have authority to control the Amendment process through to Ratification. Their sovereignty has been passed down to them from the Articles of Confederation through Article V in the United States Constitution. It must not be abdicated. State Legislatures are the final arbiters in all Constitutional matters.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:20:13 +0000
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