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Do these legislatures consistently pass legislation that protects us from unconstitutional usurpation now? We are being told that it is BECAUSE OF all of the unconstitutional usurpation that we need to amend the constitution. That which the constitution already says should not be done, is what is being done. So we are told that we need to TELL THEM AGAIN, by writing another amendment, that this is what they should not do. Try this: Put some money on the sidewalk, and put a sign out there that says no one is allowed to steal that money. You come back the next day and the money is gone. So what are you going to do? Put some more money on the sidewalk? But this time you are going to put TWO signs out there that says no one is allowed to steal that money.

Do we have the votes now, in our state legislature, or in ANY state legislature, to stand up against unconstitutional federal usurpation? If we did they would have already nullified Obamacare, and they would have already stopped the federal government from infringing on the right to keep and bear arms, and so many other things.

We are being told that states cannot nullify unconstitutional federal usurpations, but it has been done over and over again.

There was a time when congress passed a law called The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which mandated that states to which escaped slaves fled, were obligated to return them to the slave masters upon their discovery. This law also subjected persons, who helped runaway slaves to criminal sanctions. In 1854, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declared the Fugitive Slave Act to be unconstitutional, without regard to the rulings of the federal government. The Vermont legislature approved the “Habeas Corpus Law,” requiring Vermont judicial and law enforcement officials to assist captured fugitive slaves. “Jury nullification” took effect as local juries acquitted people who were accused of violating the Fugitive Slave Act. Ultimately the Fugitive Slave Act was not enforced in any state where slavery was not condoned.

At one time there was the Alien and Sedition Act, which made it illegal to criticize the President. In 1798 Jefferson and Madison drafted The Kentucky Resolutions and the Virginia Resolutions, which declared the Alien and Sedition Act to be null and void.

Prohibition was repealed because it was unenforceable and widely ignored. Prohibition was CONSTITUTIONAL because it resulted from an amendment to the Constitution. Regardless of this, prohibition was nullified because it was not the will of the people.
The important and obvious reality is that the Alien and Sedition Act, the Fugitive Slave Act, and myriads of other outrageously unconstitutional usurpations were perfectly acceptable to the Supreme Court. The most outrageous unconstitutional usurpations of our own time are Obamacare, The Patriot Act and the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act). Any semi-literate, with an IQ above room temperature, could have quickly determined that none of the usurpations mentioned here are even close to being constitutional.

If our state legislators had the backbone to stand up to the federal government they could do it right now without a constitutional convention.

While paying lip service to the concept of a balanced budget, have our state legislators refused to accept federal money? If they are not willing to refuse federal money how likely is it that they will limit the federal government from offering it?

Subterfuge: Call it “Convention of the States” instead of Constitutional Convention, and claim that these are not the same thing. BUT at THE SAME TIME make it a call that is derived from Article V.
Article V is about a Constitutional Convention.
They are calling for an Article V Constitutional Convention, pure and simple, and nothing else.
AT THE SAME TIME, claim that all of the states that called for a Constitutional Convention, count in their tally.
If what they are calling for now, is not the same thing, why would these other calls for a Constitutional Convention, count in their tally?

Article V of The Constitution lays out the only two ways to change The Constitution:

1. The Amendment process: A specific, and clearly defined, change that is limited to what is written in the amendment.

2. The Constitutional Convention: A process to scrap the entire constitution and replace it with something else. ANY type of amendment can be considered.

The Constitution of the United States of America: