A Constitutional Convention Needs Years of Preparation

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Since most Blog writers do not elucidate their worldview up front and create an interest to discover what the writer has to say, out of respect for the reader’s time, I consider it an act that should be a requirement for all writers.

I say this because I have spent the last six years consuming thousands of essays, and hundreds of books that claimed to be reporting events affecting the present socio-political environment in North America. Unfortunately, ninety percent of what I have read was a waste of time, simply because anyone with eyes wide open and a lust for freedom should instinctively know they could never obtain freedom from the effects of other peoples’ actions. Hopefully, this letter will not waste the reader’s time, but bring them to an understanding of why we are controlled instead of free.

The following are just a few examples: Joe six-pack comes home tired from an occupation he has no interest in, flops down of the sofa completely exhausted, and fries his mind and body for six hours with beer and television, pops the ole lady and goes to sleep. The academian, with a reading speed of twelve hundred words per minute, and a near photographic memory spends four hours a day reading other peoples’ writings, then another eight hours thinking of how he can get credit for a new idea. Frustrated with the world’s inability to recognize his genius, he goes to bed unaware of his patient wife. In between these extremes are hundreds of personalities, hell bent on obtaining their cognition of utopia with the least amount of effort.

If this sounds to you like humanity has a plan, this writer admits he has missed it. The good news is that quantum physics proves beyond doubt that all matter is in motion, and that motion is totally controlled by some unknown super intelligence. This is the extreme academian’s explanation for the existence of the Lord God Almighty, whether they realize that or not, is still left up to the reader’s opinion. Personally, I have no doubts about all matter having been created, and it is in constant movement towards its predetermined and totally controlled destiny. If that statement offends the reader, then this is a good place to stop wasting your time.

Hopefully, all of the above has left the reader with the opinion that the writer has spent considerable time and effort searching for an intelligent answer to humanity’s absolute inability to co-exist in harmony. That is, assuming the reader is a thinker. It appears that thinking has joined the model T ford, as humanity now considers the absence of absolutes, from not thinking, as justification for not being capable of it. Now, the reader should have perceived why I am so convinced that the present call for a constitutional convention, as an attempt to improve government, is premature.

In the event the reader requires facts, and rejects intuitive conclusions, here is a fact that anyone, regardless of their intelligence, should be aware of and very concerned about. Democracy is a tyranny of the majority by the minority, and who in their right mind would expect the two to co-exist in harmony? A Republic is an open invitation to an oligarchy, through their previously acquired wealth-power. No government in the known history of humanity has ever ruled without using force. Now, don’t you agree that it is just a little presumptuous to think humans have the ability to promote and protect cultural diversity, by writing a set of rules few ever read, and fewer are willing to obey; and that is assuming they can understand them.

If that conclusion is too pragmatic for you, then let us consider the overwhelming obstacle of controlling a diverse cultural society without the use of force. Does it now appear that we have a problem? If the reader really believes an instrument can be written that will inspire humanity to conform to it out of some sense of duty, love, or reason, then by all means please get started. BUT! Before you do, please do not overlook these facts. The United States of America is, and has been, under the control of people that are not subject to being controlled by any instrument, for as far back as you want to research. The existing constitution is the product of their control, and they are only inches away from initiating absolute control over every facet of every citizen’s life, by controlling their life sustaining resources. That is not a world I want to grow old in, so please, all of you who admittedly are much more intelligent that I could ever dream of being, get busy and rewrite the old one, or write a new one, and I will spend the rest of my life supporting and praising you.

That is assuming it works, and I can grow old with no more intrusions into my private life, no more taxes that lower my standard of living, no more license to buy in order to operate a business, keep possession of my home and other personal property, and no more laws that assume I can’t wipe my backside in the right direction or choose a doctor of my choice. DARN! My spell and grammar checker puked after that last sentence.

I have concluded it would be more realistic to solve the problems of a diverse cultural society by giving them fifty different Sovereign States to choose from, instead of each state being dominated by a central leviathan and forced to conform to one single constitution. I have also concluded a long time ago that I would participate in an election for the first time in my life, if the candidates had first supplied the state with a written agreement clearly elucidating their comprehension of their state constitution, and how they would use it to preserve peace and harmony, promote sustainable growth in commerce and agriculture, and protect the state from outside influence. Each elected officer of the state would remain subject to a citizen plebiscite in the event of misconduct or incompetence. This author does not intend to itemize all that is needed to administer a state. That’s for smart people.

If the reader is still convinced that a new constitutional convention will solve, or even marginally improve life in America, and has taken personal offence with this writer’s admitted inept attempt at being an entertaining surreptitious curmudgeon, just chalk it up to ignorance and or exasperation with the people I honestly admire being unable to improve my life. All I ever wanted was to be free, equal, and happy.

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Cecil Lanier
Cecil Lanier

Old Dog,
Good intentions of ordinary citizens have no just position in the politics of today. Those who have served term after term have become immune in their own minds to our laws and their responsibilities. The human nature changes with position of authority no matter how insignificant the position. Just spend some time in any local office trying to correct any error and their little rules post obstacles to any direction you may venture in your quest. (Many rules are often made up on the spot ). Most often, these are just to impress you with their power and positions of importance. Go head to head with a local councilman or Mayor and see how far you get...Now... climb the ladder of importance to the Federal level and look at the pomp of members of Congress and the Administration and do the math because it has a multiplication factor that is equal to their spend and tax numbers. They have absolutely no fear of the puny public opinion of them or the job they do. Because we cannot organize for that same and exact reason...those who initiate any new movement, began to ask for monies and move friends into power positions and then fall flat when everyone realizes they are going down the same old path again and back away from them. Watch the TEA PARTY fall apart now that the Republicans are taking credit for the cause and trying to ride it into the next elections...they will manage to destroy that movement and it is the best one for the people to use against all of them. I would say exactly he same thing if the Democrats try to climb aboard, because all of them are at least partly to blame...the TEA PARTY needs to remain a movement and not unite with any party...

C Pedersen
C Pedersen

Very well said, Mr. Harvey - continued...

Americans must make the committment to the slow, pain-staking process of taking back their rights block by block, town by town, and educating themselves on the type of action they must take to remain highly vigilant to all government actions and the likely long term ramifications of such actions.

As Thomas Jefferson put it, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.", and also very wisely said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and never will be.".

C Pedersen
C Pedersen

Very well said, Mr. Harvey!

The idea of a "magic bullet" in economics, politics, medicine, and a wide array of organized human activity has always been a seductive fantasy that rarely comes to fruition and Mr. Harvey surely defeats this same fantastical thinking in the notion that a new constitution could ever fix the wild tangle of problems encountered by Americans struggling to hold their ground in the age of a crumbling global fascist empire bent on hanging on to its power at all costs to civilized society.

Probably sooner rather than later, a new constitution would be looked on "as just a goddamned piece of paper" (as our last commander-in-chief exclaimed) if the citizens aren't sufficiently educated on how to interpret or defend their constitution from constant internal and external threats.

Russell D. Longcore
Russell D. Longcore

While I appreciate the effort to educate Boobus Americanus...the American citizen, about the Constitution, I must point out that the US Constitution has been dead for at least 150 years. This is just like arguing about the terms and conditions of an insurance policy that you had that expired decades ago. The Terms and Conditions Don't Matter!!! Why not just write cogent articles about constitutional conventions in each state as they contemplate secession? Please stop helping people stay ignorant, and bring them into the light of truth and liberty.

who cares
who cares

rough draft oa a 28th amendment

we are unique in our persons , communities , cities , and states . we reserve the right to live in freedom and to govern ourselves .
to reaffirm the intent of the 10th amendment ; the people of the united states grant the federal government limited authority .

the interpretation of the commerce clause as applied to the states shall be restricted to meaning regulation of 'fairness of commerce' between the states of the union .
this power is restricted to equalizing taxes , tariffs , and duties among the states as they may require to generate revenue for their own operation .
no interpretation of the commerce clause will be presumed to authorize control of or interfere with commerce within a state or among states ,
except to maintain fair access via land , water , or air for the purpose of allowing states to conduct commerce among themselves .

further , that promoting general welfare as used in the preamble of the constitution , be defined as one of the reasons for the constitutions establishment , and in no way a grant of power .
that providing for the common defense and general welfare as used in section 8.1 be understood to refer to funding the enumerated powers and is not under congresses discretion ,
is not an enumerated or implied power itself , nor a source granting authority to legislate under 'the necessary and proper clause' .
General Welfare shall be defined as the encompassing purpose for which the enumerated powers of this constitution are authorized .

that the executive treaty making power of article 2:2 , additionally require the approval of two thirds of the states .

and further , that all proposed legislation contain derivations of constitutional authority and the names of attesting legislators

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