This legislative committee has flatly refused to support obeying the Constitution. At its hearings it rejected using an Article V Convention which is fine if it weren’t for the fact that public record shows all 50 states have submitted 750 applications for a convention call by Congress. Congress has refused to do this in violation of its oaths of office. The texts of the applications can be read at http://www.foavc.org.

So what we have is the committee asking Congress to respect the Tenth Amendment which the courts have ruled is merely a principle in the Constitution and not a constitutional mandate. See U.S. v Sprague, 282 U.S. 716 (1931). In contrast the court in that same ruling make it perfectly clear Congress must call a convention.

The efforts of this committee are meaningless because they insist on using the wrong part of the Constitution and have come out publicly supporting Congress having the right to veto the Constitution by opposing an Article V Convention call thus allowing Congress to refuse to obey the Constitution. The very action they complain about! Constitutional hypocrisy at its most obvious.

The most ironic part is the fact that the texts of the applications prove that if a convention were called it would be addressing the very same problems the committee complains about not with words, but amendment proposals which when ratified would solve the problems. The simple fact is amendments work. They solve problems facing our nation. That claim cannot be made nor proven about the Tenth Amendment.

Sooner or later those behind all these movements or their followers are going to wake up and realize there is only one solution designed in the Constitution–an Article V Convention. They’ll realize it when everything else they try fails simply because their constitutional hypocrisy at urging something be vetoed while condemning a government for doing what they favor. Their opponents don’t have to say or do a thing as long as they do this. They shoot themselves in the foot quite nicely.

John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Communications Director, Institute On The Constitution
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com