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COS: Working to give Americans what they want

Eighty-eight percent of Americans agree on something?

On what, in this highly-polarized era when everything seems political, can 88 percent of Americans agree?

Perhaps 88 percent of baseball fans believe that the Dodgers have replaced the Yankees as the game's new Evil Empire.

It's highly likely that 88 percent of Americans – at least – dislike Meghan Markle. That percentage must be higher for the Kardashians, right?

But 88 percent of Americans do agree on one thing: an end to career politicians.

In autumn 2024, a poll released by the Susquehanna Polling and Research firm confirmed that 88 percent of Americans across the political spectrum support fixed term limits. Susquehanna also found that 71 percent of Americans believe that more restrictions need to be placed upon the federal government.

According to that same poll, a remarkable 68 percent of Americans support a meeting of the states to discuss amending the Constitution to solidify federal fiscal responsibility, term limits, and limitations upon federal power.

Thus far, 19 of the required 34 states have passed the limited-purpose uniform Convention of States (COS) application to compel Congress to call an Article V convention.

Now we are on the cusp of 20.

Just last week, after an amazing few hours in which the COS resolution was approved by two committees therein, the **North Carolina** House of Representatives voted in favor of the COS resolution. Should the Senate pass the resolution, only 14 more states will be needed to call the Article V convention so desired by 68 percent of Americans.

On May 8, the Texas Senate passed a “clean” COS resolution that eliminated an expiration date on the original resolution that the legislature approved in 2017, marking final passage of the clean resolution in the Lone Star State.

This year, the COS resolution has passed favorably out legislative committees in states such as New Hampshire and Iowa. The Wyoming Senate and the South Dakota Senate passed the COS resolution. In January, Connecticut became the 50th state in the history of our movement to file a COS resolution shortly after the resolution was filed in the state legislature of neighboring Massachusetts.

The up-to-date list of all this progress can be found by clicking here.

The growing momentum for an Article V convention in an array of so-called “red” states and “blue” states reflects the polling data released by Susquehanna. Americans from all corners are disgusted with the ways of Washington, D.C., no matter who is in power and demand not temporary reform, but permanent structural change.

Despite the squealing of fear-mongering opponents who mislead and lie about what an Article V convention is and is not, such a gathering is essentially a conversation among states – a national conversation, if you will, about where we are and where are going as a country.

What better place than an Article V convention to meet on demonstrated common ground and have a civil – but robust – conversation and debate about how to best make those solutions endure?

To add your voice to the conversation, sign the petition below and become involved in the most effective grassroots organization dedicated to giving the people what they want:

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