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+ | =====The Article Five solution – courage is the price of liberty===== | ||
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+ | //This is the last installment in a five-part series on Article Five of the U.S. Constitution published on TheBlaze.com. Please check back every day this week for new content and click // | ||
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+ | The process is as safe as any political process can be, entailing numerous, redundant protections. | ||
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+ | First, the scope of authority for the convention is set by the topic specified in the 34 [[documents: | ||
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+ | Second, state legislatures can recall any delegates who exceed their authority or instructions. As a matter of basic agency law, actions taken outside the scope of a delegate' | ||
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+ | Third, even if a majority of convention delegates went rogue and were left unchecked by the state legislatures they represent, and even if Congress nevertheless sent the illicit amendment proposals to the states for ratification, | ||
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+ | But the most important protection on the Article Five process is the explicit constitutional requirement that three-fourths, | ||
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+ | In light of the multiple layers of protection on the state-led Article Five convention process, it is difficult to understand why some are so afraid of it-or why they don't seem to fear Congress' | ||
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+ | Certainly, no future outcome of any kind can ever be absolutely guaranteed. Day has dawned since the beginning of time, but who can definitively prove that the sun will rise tomorrow? | ||
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+ | What critics must acknowledge, | ||
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+ | Courage was the ink that marked the words of the [[historicaldocuments: | ||
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+ | Courage was the tattered uniform of young men who gave their lives to rid a fledgling America of the scourge of slavery. It was the tank that carried weary soldiers over the battlefields of a Hitler-stained Europe. And courage was the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr., | ||
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+ | America exists because our forefathers [[historicaldocuments: | ||
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+ | Courage is the price of liberty. | ||
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+ | //Rita Martin Dunaway serves as Staff Counsel for The Convention of States Project and is passionate about restoring constitutional governance in the U.S. Follow her on Facebook (Rita Martin Dunaway) and e-mail her at rita.dunaway@gmail.com.// | ||
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