Constitutional Convention - Adieu
As a friend said about calling a 'Constitutional Convention':
Fuhgetaboutit - it ain't gonna happen.
Yes, that friend is almost certainly correct. Unfortunately.
I have endeavored to wade through the issues, and approach a solution to the problem of a government that is out of control from a viewpoint that differs markedly from any that I have read or any path that I have seen proposed previously.
Almost all other approaches broadly presented have been piece meal, band-aid, close the barn door patches.
The last two serious calls for a Constitutional Convention were for the 'ERA (equal rights amendment)', and a 'Balanced Budget' amendment - both dating back to the times of President Ronald Reagan.
The ERA has been implemented through the back door - through a hodge podge of executive orders, bureaucratic regulation, various and sundry laws, and judicial decisions.
The Balanced Budget concept has fallen off the radar, for any realistic evaluation of the climate today.
Both those calls for 'Constitutional Convention' were minor, by any stretch of the imagination in comparison to the preceeding major structural changes proposed in this series.
Yes - I have been influenced by Mark Levin, who has authored the Liberty Amendments. To what extent my proposals are in agreement with his, I do not currently know - not having yet read his book, nor seen his list of Liberty Amendments.
To the extent they agree, good.
To the extent they dis-agree, even better.
We have all heard the incessant mantra of "You can not legislate morality".
To that I say: BULLSHIT - All law, both civil and criminal is based on morality, on separating what is good from what is bad, from that which is acceptable behaviour, from that which is unacceptable.
Three Commandments, from THE SUPREME LAW, effectively cover ALL the Laws of the United States. Unfortunately, we stupid human beings feel it is necessary to clarify and expand those laws.
Those Three Commandments:
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
Thou shalt not murder.
Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbour's.
I will leave it to the reader to reconcile how 'all civil and criminal law of the United States' is contained in the above three commandments.
If indeed that reconciliation is something you desire, I will direct you to the best exposition of those three commandments that exists:
Luther's Large Catechism: http://bookofconcord.org/lc-3-tencommandments.php
-or in e-book format: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1722
I do believe that we are on the brink of a very dark abyss - and seriously doubt that we will be able to avoid falling into that abyss.
With that, this ocd maniac, closes out a personally long, possibly rambling, journey of discovery. I hope it has provoked some thought, and possibly, will provoke the tiniest bit of action.
Ultimately, I must place my trust in the Lord - and do what very little I can do in His Service.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...
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