Why I Am Opposed To The Convention Of States

Lately, I have been hearing ads on the radio asking listeners to pester our legislature to pass a Convention of States resolution. Mark Levin, an incredibly smart lawyer, and our Lieutenant Governor, Mark Robinson, someone else I admire, are supposedly in favor of it. Even so, I am not, and I will explain why.

First, I do not discount the ability of progressives to infiltrate pretty much anything and turn it into the opposite of what if was supposed to have been.  Even the Constitution itself started out as a meeting of sovereign state delegates to tweak the Articles of Confederation.  Instead, the delegates ripped up the Articles, and created a new document, a republic if we could keep it.  What keeps the Convention of States from doing the same thing?  Many people believe the Constitution is outdated and needs to be rewritten, after all.  But it actually isn't outdated, it just needs to be followed.

Then there is the problem that the Constitution doesn't enforce itself.  People have to respect it and follow its procedures.  But when nobody follows the Constitution, and officials who are supposed to do so can openly flout it, what makes anyone think they will obey a new document?  Biden just extended the eviction moratorium despite it being widely know to be unconstitutional.

One of the things about our Constitution is the justice system, which is supposed to be the same for all, whether high born or low. Remember that the Constitution was consciously written to create a nation of laws and not of men.  But as we have seen, some people are prosecuted on trumped up charges, while others can (figuratively) get away with murder. Maybe it isn't so figurative.  In any case, we have become  a nation of men, not of laws.

Then, there are our rights, which have been slowly watered down and dissipated. We can only worship as long as we do so in the fashion our leaders prescribe.  God, apparently has been shoved aside.  No one, it seems, at the Federal level believes that "shall not be infringed" means don't infringe the right.  They are busily planning to ban our guns, ammunition and who knows what other arms.  Oh, and how is it that the government can run guns to Mexican cartels, breaking laws they were sworn to uphold, yet no one is prosecuted? Then there is the National Security Agency, that captures every electronic emission from every device like this computer or your cell phone. What they think is so interesting about my call to my wife that I am coming home is anyone's guess. But these things are supposed to be private unless the government obtains a warrant based on probable cause. What cause do they have to record a call to my wife that I am coming home from work?

Eliot Axelman explains How A Convention of States Would Play Out. Like me, he is not optimistic that it would go as those who would invoke it hope it would.  In noting how many liberals and Leftists are elected from supposedly conservative states, it becomes hard to say he is wrong.  Sadly, I think he is right.