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| ====== John Birch Society Denies Its History and Betrays Its Mission ====== | ====== John Birch Society Denies Its History and Betrays Its Mission ====== |
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| Here is The John Birch Society Bulletin for August, 1963, with an urgent message from Robert Welch asking all Chapter Leaders and members to send telegrams and letters urging the Alabama Senate to pass the resolution calling for the Liberty Amendment. | Here is The John Birch Society Bulletin for August, 1963, with an urgent message from Robert Welch asking all Chapter Leaders and members to send telegrams and letters urging the Alabama Senate to pass the resolution calling for the Liberty Amendment. |
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| {{:blog:welch_and_liberty_amendment.png?nolink&300|Welch and Liberty Amendment}} | {{:blog:welch_and_liberty_amendment.png?nolink&500|Welch and Liberty Amendment}} |
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| Representative[[http://www.jbs.org/rep-larry-mcdonald|Larry McDonald]], from Georgia, who served at the time on the John Birch Society's National Council, introduced the Liberty Amendment in Congress on October 9, 1975 and gave extensive testimony--including responses to 74 questions about the amendment. Among those questions and answers were the following: | Representative[[http://www.jbs.org/rep-larry-mcdonald|Larry McDonald]], from Georgia, who served at the time on the John Birch Society's National Council, introduced the Liberty Amendment in Congress on October 9, 1975 and gave extensive testimony--including responses to 74 questions about the amendment. Among those questions and answers were the following: |
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| {{:blog:congressional_record_1_.png?nolink&300|Congressional Record}} | {{:blog:congressional_record_1_.png?nolink&500|Congressional Record}} |
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| ([[https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/conventionofstates/pages/1285/attachments/original/1429028308/Congressional_House_Report_Liberty_Amendments.pdf?1429028308|Congressional Record – House, October 9, 1975, 32634-32641]]) | ([[https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/conventionofstates/pages/1285/attachments/original/1429028308/Congressional_House_Report_Liberty_Amendments.pdf?1429028308|Congressional Record – House, October 9, 1975, 32634-32641]]) |
| 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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| {{:blog:we_hold_these_truths.jpg?nolink&300|We Hold these Truths, Smoot}} | {{:blog:we_hold_these_truths.jpg?nolink&300|We Hold these Truths, Smoot}}\\ |
| //"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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