Rhode Island General Assembly debates a federal Constitutional Convention: Fix Congress First

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One June 1, Rhode Island State Rep. David Segal introduced a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention to reform our electoral system.

If the General Assembly approves this resolution, Rhode Island will become the first state to call for a Constitutional Convention to break Congress' dependence on special interest money.

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• larry lessig
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• rhode
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[AnimalFarmDance]

AND THE ACLU IS MISUSING WHAt the founders wwere talking about, pretty amazing from a bunch of lawyers

[AnimalFarmDance]

and then as to the aclu guy, FREE SPEECH TO the founders of our nation ddoes not equal money

FREE SPEECH DOES NOT EQUAL MONEY, the 1st amendment talks about our rights at citizens to speak freely AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT or anny business hwomever, NOT TO SPEND MONEY IN ELECTIONS. its not even anyhere close to the same concept. the BILL OF RIGHTS PROTECTS AMERICANS< NOT AMERICANS TO SPEND MONEY OR CORPORATIONS TO SPEND MONEY in ELECTIONS (A DEMORATIC PROCESS< NOT A SUPERMARKET . god LOL

[AnimalFarmDance]

Any consititutuional convention could onlyy ADD amendments, not take away amendments

[AnimalFarmDance]

they couldn't JUST REMOVE THE BILL OF RIGHTS, they would have to AMEND , they can't remove amendments it doesn't work like that. the issue at hand is that CONGRESS blocks PROGRESS cuz they are ALL PAID OFF TO BLOCK PROGRESS. don't we all agree? how can CONGRESS BE effective if they have to get relelected by PRIVATE MONEY? Get it?

[joe80dman]

@10231898 : No, we need to REFRESH the Constitution, and ORDER the COURTS to abide by their oaths of office. The Courts are our biggest problem to date. They've unlawfully REINTERPRETED the laws of grammar to subvert the Law.

[joe80dman]

NO, NO, NO! Do you peole realize what this could do? They could omit the 1st, and 2nd Amendments. The only reason why they'd want to amend the Constitution is to remove those parts that guarantee personal freedoms, and limits on government. They've already gone on record complaining about the Constitution "gives too much freedom to the People", so why do you think they're pulling this stunt? They want to turn us into a Totalitarian State, and I won't tolerate it.

[isawanangel2]

omg..we need term limits, how about 1!

[10231898]

Yes! Amend the constitution. Without amendments we, the people, would be left out. Seems the constitution was not written for the people, but are rules for government agencies. Yes! FIX CONGRESS FIRST. Yes! CREATE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Thank you for your efforts.

[zephae]

As gary mentioned, having pressure from the states for a Constitutional Convention could force Congress to act on the issue. Indeed, there are many risks involved and I doubt that you'd be able to limit the convention, but the more state legislatures that vote for this measure, the more attention it will receive. This may look like using a sledgehammer to steady a Jenga tower, but anything short of this kind of threat is not going to motivate Congress to action.

[ReliableInsider]

@garymiguel

At this point, I'm not sure we could trust a constitutional convention to be infallible any more than we trust Congress. What if they amend the Constitution to eliminate elections altogether and just have Congressional seats distributed by auction to the highest bidder?

That would be so much worse than the current system. . . . wait a minute, that IS the current system.