Dear Legislator document.

Attachment: 3369/Dear_legislatorFINAL_.pdf

The powers not delegated to the United States
by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the

States, are reserved to the States respectively, or

to the people.

Convention of States Louisiana seeks your help to reel in a runaway federal government, using the

Constitution’s amendment process in Art

icle V to enforce the Constitution as written, not as distorted by

Washington, D.C.

The COS resolution (already passed in Louisiana) seeks to restrain the unconstitutional federal overreach
by calling a convention to propose amendments on three topics: to (1) to limit the power and
jurisdiction of the federal government, (2) impose fiscal restraints upon its activities, and (3) limit the
terms of office that may be served by its officials and by members of Congress.

Louisiana is already a leader in this movement.

In 2016, the Louisiana legislature passed the

Convention of States resolution

(

SCR 52

), which applied to the U.S. Congress for calling an amendments

convention to propose amendments (see Tab 1).  I

n 2018, the Louisiana legislature passed a resolution

(HCR 4)

(see Tab 2) which details how the Louisiana legislature will select, authorize, instruct, and

supervise its  delegates  to an Article V amendments convention when it is called. This resolution shows
how the Louisiana legislature will oversee the Louisiana delegation. For more information, see the
article

Article V Revisited: The U.S. Constitutional Provision for States to Control the Federal Government

and Louisiana Participation

(See Tab 3).

Over 30,000 Louisiana citizens have signed the COS resolution. We will separately send to you a list of
the citizens in your district who have signed the petition, but there is also strong support nationwide for
restraining the federal government (Tab 4).

We are glad to discuss this further with you and answer any questions you may have. The COS Pocket
Guide (Tab 5) will answer many questions. We also offer  an article by Constitutional scholar Michael
Farris, JD, LLM on

the “runaway convention”

myth,

Can We Trust the Constitution? Answering The

“Runaway Convention” Myth

(Tab 6).

We believe in freedom

–

freedom for all our fellow citizens regardless of race, age, religion, or ideology.

We believe that freedom is now under attack, but we see this COS project as the Constitutional way to
restore and maintain that freedom.

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government,
are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments

are numerous and indefinite.

Federalist No. 45 - Written by James Madison, Independent Journal, Saturday, January 26, 1788.

https://conventionofstates.com/

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Tenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution

Dear

Representative Samuel Adams

John Smith [COS district captain or other person name] [phone number]

Julie Sandifer, State Director

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