There are around fifteen Republicans running for President. None of them, including John Kasich, is advocating the use of Article V to reform Washington. Kasich is all in on a BBA, but he never talks about Article V, except as a vehicle to a balanced budget. He openly hopes Congress gets the message and passes a BBA itself, thus eliminating the necessity of an Amendment Convention. Why doesn’t at least one of these bright and well informed politicians embrace Article V wholeheartedly, and advocate its use not just for a BBA, but for the restoration of federalism, a bedrock constitutional principle honored mainly in the breech? I don’t know.
Why not explain that the Framers foresaw a day when the Congress itself would be so corrupted that political reform would need to come from the states, and the people? Argue that the day foreseen by the Framers has indeed arrived, and that the remedy they provided us –Article V — stands ready and waiting.
Over the last year and a half on this blog I’ve made the case for Article V as the vehicle for completely turning this country around. Everybody has had it to here with Washington D.C. corruption and dysfunction. Electing a Republican President would help put things right, but based on the last 35 years of experience you’d be a fool to think it would really solve our problems. Those problems are institutional in nature, and require an institutional solution. The Federal Assembly has the potential to be such an institution. It can be an overseer of the federal government. If we can get one Amendment Convention under our belt, the Federal Assembly can emerge as a forum for organizing repeated Amendment Conventions, one every two years. Once the principle has been established that the States, with Article V, are the master of the federal government the people will realize that they are the masters of their state governments, and thus of the country. Helplessness in the face of oncoming tyranny will be replaced by hope in a return to the Constitution as it was written.
It’s a pleasant tale to tell. But no one tells it. Is it that far fetched? Why not run it up the flagpole, and see if anyone salutes? I’m missing something.
What is it?
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