Do you support a constitutional convention being formed in your state this 2010?
Do you support a constitutional convention being formed in your state this 2010 and getting some important constitutional amendments sent off for other states to consider ratifying?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100222/lessig
Lawrence Lessig Says the biggest problem with American Democracy today is the overreliance on even legal moneys en masse from institutions and businesses who have had little interest in the commonwealth of the people of the United States. He says that while Congress is busy looking into the mess made by the supreme court decision to allow even wealthy foreign firms and states to take over U.S. elections even more than corporate America and special interests do today, he thinks the rest of us should organize a CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION now and get to the bottom of getting Congress back under the interest of the Commonwealth of Americans.
“[T]he framers left open a path to amendment that doesn't require the approval of Congress--a convention, which must be convened if two-thirds of the states apply for it. Interestingly (politically) those applications need not agree on the purpose of the convention. Some might see the overturning of Citizens United. Others might want a balanced budget amendment. The only requirement is that two-thirds apply, and then begins the drama of an unscripted national convention to debate questions of fundamental law.”—Lessig
Lawrence Lessig has written in The Nation that the U.S. Constitution fails to control CONGRESS the current system properly. Lessig says that Congress as it is elected these days with out of control legal moneys is the wrong way to go and not what our forefathers had planned at all. He says that it is at such a time as now that we need to use the state-based constitutional convention offered us in the US Constitution to change the endless spending phenomena and allow more direct and real democracy not manipulated by the wealthiest special interests as we experience today.
Readers, please give your sentiments below. Let’s debate this thoroughly.
Do you support a constitutional convention being formed in your state this 2010 and getting some important constitutional amendments set off for other states to consider ratifying?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100222/lessig
Lawrence Lessig Says the biggest problem with American Democracy today is the overreliance on even legal moneys en masse from institutions and businesses who have had little interest in the commonwealth of the people of the United States. He says that while Congress is busy looking into the mess made by the supreme court decision to allow even wealthy foreign firms and states to take over U.S. elections even more than corporate America and special interests do today, he thinks the rest of us should organize a CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION now and get to the bottom of getting Congress back under the interest of the Commonwealth of Americans.
“[T]he framers left open a path to amendment that doesn't require the approval of Congress--a convention, which must be convened if two-thirds of the states apply for it. Interestingly (politically) those applications need not agree on the purpose of the convention. Some might see the overturning of Citizens United. Others might want a balanced budget amendment. The only requirement is that two-thirds apply, and then begins the drama of an unscripted national convention to debate questions of fundamental law.”—Lessig
Lawrence Lessig has written in The Nation that the U.S. Constitution fails to control CONGRESS the current system properly. Lessig says that Congress as it is elected these days with out of control legal moneys is the wrong way to go and not what our forefathers had planned at all. He says that it is at such a time as now that we need to use the state-based constitutional convention offered us in the US Constitution to change the endless spending phenomena and allow more direct and real democracy not manipulated by the wealthiest special interests as we experience today.
Readers, please give your sentiments below. Let’s debate this thoroughly.
Do you support a constitutional convention being formed in your state this 2010 and getting some important constitutional amendments set off for other states to consider ratifying?
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