Friday, January 29, 2016 Austin, Texas Press Release
http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/21900
ICYMI: The Weekly Standard: A New Constitutional Convention?
As Texas attorney general, Greg Abbott spoke with evident pride about how many times he'd sued the federal government. The total came to 31, and invariably the lawsuits challenged actions that Abbott believed violated federal statutes or the Constitution. Now, as Texas governor, he is no longer in court but has hardly quit objecting to federal overreach. In a speech last month to the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Abbott declared it's time for state legislatures to address the problem by amending the Constitution.
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The Texas Plan recalls past arguments made against Article V convention efforts and anticipates they will be used again - chief among them that there could be a "runaway" convention "in which the states propose a convention to debate limited amendments, but ... the delegates end up throwing the entire Constitution in the trashcan." If that were to happen, observes the Texas Plan, "none of the delegates' efforts would become law without approval from three-fourths of the States" - a serious check on an unlikely development. For Abbott, the "runaway" argument rests on the dubious idea that the people serving as delegates to an Article V convention would behave more irresponsibly in exercising their constitutional duties than the members of the many Congresses that proposed amendments did in carrying out theirs.
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http://gov.texas.gov/news/press-release/21900
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