Thank you Thom for this excellent piece. Only one thing is missing: what ordinary citizen activists can do to help make a change. Here's my suggestion:
Join in the effort to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that only human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Rep.…
Thank you Thom for this excellent piece. Only one thing is missing: what ordinary citizen activists can do to help make a change. Here's my suggestion:
Join in the effort to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that only human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (R-WA) is the lead sponsor of the We the People Amendment which had 94 co-sponsors in the last Congress. Learn more at www.MoveToAmend.org
The right wing has been aching for decades to hold a constitutional convention
Wealthy donors, corporations, and radical far-right actors are pushing calls for an Article V Convention in states across the country to reshape our Constitution for their own benefit.
The ERA was first introduced in 1923 and passed the House and Senate in 1972. At the time of passage, Congress required three-fourths of the states to ratify the amendment within seven years, although the Constitution does not impose a deadline for ratification of amendments. The 27th Amendment was ratified two centuries after it passed Congress. By 1977, 35 states had ratified the ERA, and in 1978, falling short of the required 38 states for adoption, Congress extended the time limit an additional three years. In 2020, Virginia became the 38th and final state needed for ratification.
The hold up has been Virginia, and the time limit extension will expire on Dec 31, meanwhile we are distracted by Trump and his cult. Have you seen or heard anything from the corporate media about Virginia and the ERA? I haven't.
The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.
All efforts are fruitless unless there is a blue wave in 2024, as well as in what are now red states.
And just not a blue wave, but a progressive blue wave, there are way too many conservaDems so called moderates in Congress.
Warren Burger warned that an Article V convention could become a “runaway convention” in which one faction could seize control of tue process to enact unwelcome changes. I could see the outcome of such a convention protecting the rights of wealthy citizens and large corporations to be heard above those of flesh and blood humans, money being treated as speech, and the only right in the bill of rights would be the second amendment.
Thank you Thom for this excellent piece. Only one thing is missing: what ordinary citizen activists can do to help make a change. Here's my suggestion:
Join in the effort to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that only human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (R-WA) is the lead sponsor of the We the People Amendment which had 94 co-sponsors in the last Congress. Learn more at www.MoveToAmend.org
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The right wing has been aching for decades to hold a constitutional convention
Wealthy donors, corporations, and radical far-right actors are pushing calls for an Article V Convention in states across the country to reshape our Constitution for their own benefit.
Common cause is fighting to stop an Art V convention https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/article-v-convention/
The ERA was first introduced in 1923 and passed the House and Senate in 1972. At the time of passage, Congress required three-fourths of the states to ratify the amendment within seven years, although the Constitution does not impose a deadline for ratification of amendments. The 27th Amendment was ratified two centuries after it passed Congress. By 1977, 35 states had ratified the ERA, and in 1978, falling short of the required 38 states for adoption, Congress extended the time limit an additional three years. In 2020, Virginia became the 38th and final state needed for ratification.
The hold up has been Virginia, and the time limit extension will expire on Dec 31, meanwhile we are distracted by Trump and his cult. Have you seen or heard anything from the corporate media about Virginia and the ERA? I haven't.
The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.
All efforts are fruitless unless there is a blue wave in 2024, as well as in what are now red states.
And just not a blue wave, but a progressive blue wave, there are way too many conservaDems so called moderates in Congress.
Warren Burger warned that an Article V convention could become a “runaway convention” in which one faction could seize control of tue process to enact unwelcome changes. I could see the outcome of such a convention protecting the rights of wealthy citizens and large corporations to be heard above those of flesh and blood humans, money being treated as speech, and the only right in the bill of rights would be the second amendment.