Washington — The existing parties will not host it. They have proven, over decades, that they will not limit their own power, close the borders, impose term limits, or stop the corporate conglomerate and its lobbyists from owning the levers of government. That is why the Framers put Article V in the Constitution.
Article V gives the states a direct path around Congress. When two-thirds of the state legislatures (34) pass matching applications, Congress must call a convention for proposing amendments. Any amendment that emerges still requires ratification by three-fourths of the states (38). The process was designed exactly for moments when the federal government refuses to restrain itself. The Convention of States movement has already advanced this limited approach in roughly twenty states, focused on fiscal restraints, limits on federal power, and term limits. It is not a theory. It is the constitutional tool the Founders left us.
This time it cannot be hijacked and slain the way the Tea Party was. The amendments must be clear, narrow, and locked to the text. Closed borders. Term limits for members of Congress and federal officials. Voting regulations that restore a real secure system with identification, citizenship verification, and an end to the machinery that has made fraud too easy. An explicit bar against anti-American foreign nationals holding positions of trust in the government. A restored definition of American citizenship that requires full allegiance—echoing the renunciation of foreign princes, potentates, and sovereignties required since the Naturalization Act of 1906 and still present in the oath today. And language that severs the grip of corporate America and the permanent lobbying class on the process itself.
The corporate-conglomerate form of government we live under now was never the Republic. PACs, dark money, and revolving-door influence have turned elected officials into managers for the highest bidder. A convention limited to these subjects is the one remaining method that does not require the permission of the people who profit from the status quo. The parties have shown they will protect the status quo. The states and the people do not have to.
A true government of, by, and for the people requires more than another election cycle that returns the same incentives. It requires the amendments the existing parties will never propose. The tool exists. The applications are already advancing. The question is whether Americans will finish the job before the next wave of lawfare, open-border policy, and corporate capture finishes the Republic.
References
- Ballotpedia — Article V, United States Constitution
ballotpedia.org/Article_V,_United_States_Constitution - Convention of States — Progress and the three-subject resolution
conventionofstates.com/news/convention-of-states-has-a-plan-and-the-states-are-already-at-work - USCIS Policy Manual — Oath of Allegiance and renunciation of foreign allegiance
uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-j-chapter-1
— Josiah Hale, WAA1776
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