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COS Regional Training Brings Patriots Together In Knoxville
Volunteers from 15 states shared strategies to reignite the American spirit of liberty and self-governance.
| South Carolina patriots traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, on the weekend of September 7 for a Convention of States training conference. They joined with 60 volunteers from across 15 states to learn and share strategies for building an army of grassroots activists and ways to reignite the American spirit of liberty and self-governance. The framers of the United States Constitution knew that they had done their very best when they drafted the document that would be used to govern the new Republic. They also knew that regardless of their best efforts, this document would likely require amendments as the country grew in size and complexity. Because of that knowledge, they wrote the process for making such amendments. That process is contained in Article V. Originally Article V was written to allow two-thirds of Congress to propose amendments to the Constitution. The day before the framers signed the Constitution, Colonel George Mason stood up and stated that it was flawed in that if Congress ever became corrupt or out of controlr, there had to be a method for the people to amend the Constitution and bring Congress back under control. A second phrase was added to allow two-third of the states to propose amendments. This process was added without comments. Article V requires that proposed amendments by either path would then be sent to the states where they must be ratified by three-fourths of the states in order to become law. The afore-mentioned process is the only legal way for the Constitution to be amended. However, over the past 150 years, the Constitution has been illegally amended numerous times by interpretations resulting from untold law suits which have become case law without ever being sent to the states for ratification. The result is that our original Constitution which consisted of less than 4,500 words and less than 16 pages has grown to an over 2,800-page behemoth containing requirements that would have the framers rolling over in their graves. Convention of States is a movement by the states to propose constitutional amendments in the following areas: 1. limit the size and scope of the government 2. require fiscal responsibility 3. place term limits on federal officials. Currently 12 states have agreed to call for an Article V convention for these purposes, and 22 more states are needed. On the weekend of September 7, COS held a training conference in Knoxville, Tennessee. Volunteers from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas met to discuss a path forward to get the 34 states necessary to convene an Article V convention for proposing amendments.  One topic of discussion on Saturday morning was the fact that as we get closer to 34 states, the opposition from organizations with opposing viewpoints will increase exponentially. Many have been duped by the false information that these groups spread. A prime example is that we have been led to believe that the government will improve, and we will be better served, as it institutes new programs.  However, as government programs increase, the overall government just gets more inefficient and consumes more of our valuable resources while giving little to no (and sometimes negative) results for our investment. That is a sure sign that many of these programs have not been well thought out. Another topic that was discussed was the difference in what we must do to pass the Article V resolution versus what we must continue to do after one is passed. Even though a Convention of States is an essential part of our mission in restoring liberty, fundamentally our mission is to build an engaged army of grassroots activists that are informed and willing to pay attention to our governing systems. One way to think about the COS movement is that at its very base, it is all about “Who Decides?” Should a large centralized government decide what is best for the individuals within the states regardless of differences from one state to another, or should those decisions be made closer to home where local differences of all types can be taken into account. Clearly, the framers believed that most decisions should be made at the state level. So how did we get where we are today? Government is getting bigger, consuming ever more of our resources and wasting vast amounts of money on things that don’t mean anything to the majority of taxpaying citizens. We got here by not watching the federal government. COS believes that we will recover our constitutional republic by building the largest, most well-informed, most well-regulated grassroots army of people that believe in self-governance and who further believe that the Constitution must be returned to its original intent of government: for the people and by the people. |
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