A Revolution In The Works?
The “BlogFather’s“ newest column for USA Today
” Americans are out of sorts, and increasingly they’re unhappy with the government. According to a Pew poll released last week, more than half of Americans view government as a threat to their freedom.
And it’s not just Republicans unhappy with Obama, or gun owners afraid that the government will take their guns: 38% of Democrats, and 45% of non-gun owners, see the government as a threat.”
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Are you suggesting that a constitutional convention would be a good idea?
It probably wouldn’t be. The last federal constitutional convention threw out the Articles of Confederation (which needed to go) and replaced them with the United States Constitution which probably doesn’t need to go so much as it needs to be followed.
Every state that has had a constitutional convention has completely rewritten its constitution and often made it less liberty-based. My fear would be that a constitutional convention would come back with something like — hey, let’s do away with the Bill of Rights. We don’t need guns and we don’t religion and we don’t need states rights and …
Well, you get the point, I think.
Actually , I was passing no judgement on the matter . I was only offering the writer’s opinion to provoke thought in people’s minds . I am of the opinion that we may be to far along to count on a majority of citizens to show the intelligence and common sense necessary to right the ship of state .
Constitutional conventions rarely work out well. They’re too easy to be hijacked by radical elements. I’m in favor of Constitutional amendments because they require a broad consensus from the states rather than a democratic leaning one way or another. It’s getting the amendments through Congress that would be the most difficult. I think the 53% of the people who say they distrust the federal government are ready for common sense solutions and don’t see that coming from either of the two major parties.