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blog:john_birch_society_denies_its_history_and_betrays_its_mission [2015/11/30 19:35] – Oliver Wolcottblog:john_birch_society_denies_its_history_and_betrays_its_mission [2015/11/30 19:53] – Oliver Wolcott
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 It would behoove Mr. McManus to read Larry McDonald's book, //We Hold These Truths//, published a year after his testimony, for in it McDonald explains the reasons why he advocates strongly for an Article V convention: It would behoove Mr. McManus to read Larry McDonald's book, //We Hold These Truths//, published a year after his testimony, for in it McDonald explains the reasons why he advocates strongly for an Article V convention:
  
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 //"The Framers provided means for the people to amend the Constitution-means which virtually circumvent federal officials. The President and the federal courts are given no role whatever in the amendment process. Congress is authorized to propose constitutional amendments if it pleases. It is obligated to call a special convention to propose constitutional amendments if two-thirds of all state legislatures demand that it do so; but Congress is given no hand in the actual ratifying or rejecting of proposed amendments. The amendment process is slow, and it was made so deliberately, in making changes in their organic law, people should not be stampeded by demagoguery, mob psychology, or false promises. The public should have ample time to think, study, debate, and reflect before making constitutional changes that affect all of them and their posterity. As James Madison put it, the amendment process was designed specifically to "guard...against that extreme facility, which would render the Constitution too mutable." //Lawrence Patton McDonald //We Hold These Truths// (The Larry McDonald Memorial Foundation Inc. Marietta Georgia, 1976), 27. //"The Framers provided means for the people to amend the Constitution-means which virtually circumvent federal officials. The President and the federal courts are given no role whatever in the amendment process. Congress is authorized to propose constitutional amendments if it pleases. It is obligated to call a special convention to propose constitutional amendments if two-thirds of all state legislatures demand that it do so; but Congress is given no hand in the actual ratifying or rejecting of proposed amendments. The amendment process is slow, and it was made so deliberately, in making changes in their organic law, people should not be stampeded by demagoguery, mob psychology, or false promises. The public should have ample time to think, study, debate, and reflect before making constitutional changes that affect all of them and their posterity. As James Madison put it, the amendment process was designed specifically to "guard...against that extreme facility, which would render the Constitution too mutable." //Lawrence Patton McDonald //We Hold These Truths// (The Larry McDonald Memorial Foundation Inc. Marietta Georgia, 1976), 27.
  
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