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Post by pavel on Jan 8, 2016 18:08:09 GMT -6
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott calls for Convention of States to take back states’ rightsGov. Greg Abbott, aiming to spark a national conversation about states’ rights, said Friday that he wants Texas to lead the call for a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution and wrest power from a federal government “run amok.” “If we are going to fight for, protect and hand on to the next generation, the freedom that [President] Reagan spoke of … then we have to take the lead to restore the rule of law in America,” Abbott said during a speech at the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Policy Orientation that drew raucous applause from the conservative audience. He said he will ask lawmakers to pass a bill authorizing Texas to join other states calling for a Convention of States. Along with the speech, Abbott released a nearly 70-page plan – part American civics lesson, part anti-Obama diatribe – detailing nine proposed constitutional amendments that he said would unravel the federal government’s decades-long power grab and restore authority over economic regulation and other matters to the states. “The irony for our generation is that the threat to our Republic doesn’t come just from foreign enemies, it comes, in part, from our very own leaders,” Abbott said in a speech that took aim at President Obama, Congress and the judicial branch. Continue to read at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2016/01/gov-greg-abbott-calls-for-constitutional-convention-to-take-back-states-rights.html/ .
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Post by texasprogressive on Jan 9, 2016 21:16:23 GMT -6
I'm on record elsewhere about the dangers of a Constitutional Convention. My understanding is that it has the power to throw out the current constitution and write a whole new one. I happen to like the one we have and I am in the middle of 5 generations who swore to protect it from enemies external and internal.
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Post by nobody on Jan 13, 2016 21:59:04 GMT -6
A constitutional convention can cut both ways. Be nice to affirm the rights of women over their own bodies, to include LGBTs as a protected minority, to specify that gerrymandering is illegal and that districts are limited to four corners, to provide for universal health insurance, to include limits on campaign spending.
Point being that maybe Abbott should be careful what he wishes for.
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