PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on August 12, 2017, 04:32:54 PM
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http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2017/08/07/is-changing-the-constitution-the-only-way-to-fix-washington
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It probably is the only way to fix washington.
Cap a tax percentage. Require a balanced budget.
One thing that I would like to see is an Amendment limiting the life of proposed Amendments. There are some which have been proposed decades ago for which you could make a case that if a half dozen or so of the remaining state bodies approved now, would become part of the Constitution. That doesn't strike me as right, but the Constitution does not specify what that time may be. And although Congress typically places a time limit, a mere law cannot change the Constitution or place artificial limits on Article V.
There is a lot of scare talk about the scope. The Constitution provides the answer. A convention may propose Amendments to be approved by the states. It may not rewrite the entire text of the Constitution or else it is no longer an Article V convention. And it may not be limited in what can be proposed. State Legislatures still must approve anything that comes out of it, so if they do not like a proposed amendment, they can reject it.
I say go for it.