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Good Advice Against a Con Con

Bonaventure Wrote: Apr 06, 2010 9:22 PM

If conservatives reclaim the hearts and minds of the American people...

If conservatives reclaim leadership in Congress, the State Capitols, and the White House...

If conservatives hold to the principles of personal and fiscal responsibility...

If conservatives acknowledge the importance of faith in the morality of our nation...

...Then why not a Constitutional Convention?

Maybe then, we will come up with a "Bill of Natutal Moral Rights": (1) banning "homosexual marriage", (2) banning abortion, (3) banning unaccountable spending, (4) banning legislation from the bench, etc.

But of course, all this should be evident under the current Bill of Rights and the following amendments.

So...

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Good Advice Against a Con Con

Suggestions that the United States call a new constitutional convention, as allowed in the Constitution's Article V, have popped up in some state legislatures and even on a page in The Wall Street Journal. No longer do these voices claim a convention can be limited to consideration of a single amendment (e.g., a balanced budget amendment) -- grandstanding politicians are proposing a wide assortment of many amendments to produce big changes.

Speaking to us from across the years, the father of the U.S. Constitution, James Madison, wrote this warning on Nov. 2, 1788, against calling another general constitutional convention.

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