*** U.S. now only 2 states away from rewriting Constitution ***

john talks about the seriousness of it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiI25K78X7M&feature=related

Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship
From the desk of Paul Belien on Mon, 2006-02-27 22:13
...This is why the structures of the European Union were initially built with the purpose of fitting into the Soviet structure. ...
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865

If the constitution/amendments are opened up, anything can be changed. I'm a physical therapist, and in our state some things needed to be changed in our practice act in the state laws. The Physical Therapy Association opposed opening up the act, though, because once it was opened EVERYTHING could be changed, not just the 2-3 little things that needed to be changed.

I'll guarantee you that if we have a con con, our country and our rights as we knew them will be gone.

SHIT! You know what this reminds me of? The Constituent Assembly, just like in countries like Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. I don't know what to think of this other than: we're damned if we do and we're damned if we don't.

I (along with everyone I know) was led to believe that the con-con was for the State Constitution. Can someone in the know please clarify. If they attempt to re-write our Constitution, this is the "shot heard around the world" & I believe a call to arms.

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"
TThomas Jefferson - 1776

to know which states haven't voted yet and who to contact. Even the main article doesn't give a complete list of states that have already voted and who exactly did the voting without our knowledge.

Our politicians just ignore it anyway.

http://www.article5.org/Amendment%20Convention%20Subject%20M... AMENDMENT CONVENTION

SUBJECT MATTER INFORMATION PAGE

"While the Constitution DOES NOT REQUIRE THAT STATES SUBMIT AN AMENDMENT SUBJECT WHEN THEY APPLY FOR AN AMENDMENT CONVENTION,***(my question/concern here is: what would PREVENT a few open-ended applications from being modified to reflect the current 'economic emergency requiring a balanced budget' OR could open-ended general applications be used for whatever means in the 'event of an emergency')*** most of the state applications submitted do relate to specific amendments subjects such as repeal of the federal income tax or balanced budget. The Constitution only requires that two-thirds of the state legislatures apply for a convention in order to compel Congress to call one, that is, a numeric count of states.

However when convention is convened these subject applications will become the basis of the convention's agenda. One of the surprising facts about the applications that is little known is that many of today's "hot" political issues surprisingly already have been put on the agenda for amendment by the amendment convention. This issues include: right to life, definition of marriage and so forth. Thus it is surprising to PTTP when groups arise calling for a convention for a specific subject, such as definition of marriage, not realizing the work has already been done and that all that is required is to force Congress to obey the Constitution so the convention can begin work on these amendments.

Below are several links in .pdf format showing various tables of information regarding the specific amendments that will make up the agenda of a convention. Remember, it is because of the resistance of Congress to obeying the Constitution that so many subjects are on the table. Had Congress obeyed the Constitution and called conventions as the applications compelled them to do so when it compelled them to do so, these amendments would have been disposed of long ago."

You can click on the following links to read information about the various amendment subjects: http://www.article5.org/Amendment%20Convention%20Subject%20M...

TABLE SUMMARIZING STATE APPLICATIONS FOR A CONVENTION

TABLE SUMMARIZING APPLICATIONS BY DATE, STATE, SUBJECT, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

TABLE SUMMARIZING MOST APPLIED AMENDMENT SUBJECTS

TABLE SUMMARIZING APPLICATIONS SUBJECT--STATE BY STATE

TABLE SUMMARIZING AMENDMENT SUBJECTS

They will not rewrite the Constitution, they are going to draw up a new Constitution and replace the old one as the did with our first constitution the "Article of Confederation".
I think the only paper we really need to read is the Declaration of Independence.

if Constitutional Convention was to happen, this site and other sites would be banned and 1st Amendment will be rewritten. The liberal special interest groups will destroy all our rights granted in the Constitution, in order to create a PC culture and totalitarian socialist governement. The whole movement this site is trying to perpetuate in the vision of Dr Paul will be dead, because they will eliminate the right to voice 'unrespectful
opinions' against the government or what might harm another individuals conscience. America at the present, not the vision we desire, will be like 'paradise' compared to where we will go. They slipped this in, with this engineered economic chaos going on, the International Bank takeover, distracting the congressmen on our side, from seeing and fighting against this action taking place. We must contact Dr Paul, so when he gets his next TV interview, he can make mention of this 'under the radar' event and express the consequences of this taking place. If Ohio passes this, I'm sure they have another state waiting to finish it off. Here is the original article sent out by the American Policy Center http://www.americanpolicy.org/sledgehammer/twostates.htm

Not good...not good at all