Iowa GOP Opposes Push for Article V Convention | anti-Con-Con Plank Added to Platform

[WisconsinLiberty]

Iowa GOP Opposes Push for Article V Convention


The New American
June 21, 2022


In a major victory for the U.S. Constitution, the Republican Party of Iowa adopted a plank in its platform opposing an Article V convention, or Con-Con, to change the Constitution.

Although not guaranteeing the defeat or rescission of Con-Con applications, the plank’s addition to the official party platform illustrates the increasing awareness among state legislators and the broader electorate about the dangers of a Con-Con.

The plank, adopted at the Iowa GOP State Convention on June 11, states:

We believe the United States Constitution, when properly obeyed and enforced, is an effective and timeless guiding instrument for the governing of our nation. Therefore, in view of the dire warnings from James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, four US Supreme Court Justices, and other eminent Jurists and scholars, we are opposed to the proposals of organizations such as “Convention of States” to ask Congress to call an Article V Convention.​

This was not the only pro-Constitution modification of the party platform. In the previous 2020 platform, the Iowa GOP announced that “we advocate a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.” (Currently, a so-called BBA is the focus of Con-Con applications in 26 states.) However, in the newly adopted platform, it declared that “we advocate limiting federal expenditures to those enumerated powers under the United States Constitution.”


Not only did the party announce its opposition to a Con-Con — a false solution to limiting the federal government — but it declared its support for enforcing the Constitution’s existing provisions to rein in government. Another newly-added plank states:

We support elected officials applying the 10th Amendment to limit the overreach of the federal government.​

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Full Article:
https://thenewamerican.com/iowa-gop-opposes-push-for-article-v-convention/

 

[Occam's Banana]

Oh, irony of ironies!

I wonder how many of these critics of a proposed Constitutional Convention, who now exalt the Constitution with such lavish and bombastic praise, are aware that the anti-federalists (rightly) opposed that very same Constitution (and the original convention that produced it) - and that they did so for pretty much the very same reasons.

The Constitution itself was and is as much (if not more) of a usurpation as any modern Con-Con might turn out to be.

 

[oyarde]

Best I can tell you dont have to pass a resolution against you'd just vote no.

 

[Working Poor]

Oh, irony of ironies!

I wonder how many of these critics of a proposed Constitutional Convention, who now exalt the Constitution with such lavish and bombastic praise, are aware that the anti-federalists (rightly) opposed that very same Constitution (and the original convention that produced it) - and that they did so for pretty much the very same reasons.

The Constitution itself was and is as much (if not more) of a usurpation as any modern Con-Con might turn out to be.

I do know that Liz and Dick Cheney along with the Bush/Clinton/Obama cartel are funding it and Blaze TV (Glenn Beck) are promoting it that is enough for me to say nay.

 

[WisconsinLiberty]

Oh, irony of ironies!

I wonder how many of these critics of a proposed Constitutional Convention, who now exalt the Constitution with such lavish and bombastic praise, are aware that the anti-federalists (rightly) opposed that very same Constitution (and the original convention that produced it) - and that they did so for pretty much the very same reasons.

The Constitution itself was and is as much (if not more) of a usurpation as any modern Con-Con might turn out to be.

This article goes into the original Constitutional Convention.

The Convention of 1787
by Robert Owens – In 1787, the Articles of Confederation were trashed and replaced. Did the convention delegates exceed their legal authority?
https://thenewamerican.com/magazine/tna3813/page/223135