Friday, January 8, 2016

Texas Governor Calls for a Convention of States



What are the American people to do when all three branches of the federal government have broken faith with our federalist system as defined in our Constitution for which our “public servants” pledged to uphold and defend?

We can thank our founders for having foresight by providing tools to fight back against a power hungry and corrupt central government.  Article V allows for a convention of States to amend the Constitution.  Many people have come to the conclusion that this may be the only way to save our republic from unscrupulous power brokers that infest Washington D.C.  The governor of Texas happens to be one of them. 

Gov. 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.

What are Americans to do when Congress has abrogated their constitutional responsibilities to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, a president that rules by pen and phone, and a Supreme Court that rewrites laws and manufacturers rights by bastardizing the 14th Amendment?  If there is another nonviolent alternative, I would like to know it.

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