TX Governor Greg Abbott calls for Convention of States to amend the U.S. Constitution to federal tyranny over the states
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, January 09, 2016
Frustrated with the massive accumulation of power in Washington, D.C., liberty-minded Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has become the latest high-profile politician to call for an Article V convention of the states in order to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution, amendments he and others say would return power to states and the people.
As reported by The Texas Tribune, Abbott – elected in 2014 to succeed Rick Perry who opted instead to pursue another run at the White House – issued his call earlier today, identifying nine new amendments he would like to see considered at a future convention organized by states.
Among them are amendments that would require a balanced federal budget, something long sought by fiscal conservatives worried about the spiraling national debt which has more than doubled on President Obama’s watch and a prohibition on Congress from regulating any activity “that occurs wholly within one state,” the latter an amendment which conservatives say eyes gun rights and marriage.
Additional amendments include giving states the authority to override federal laws and Supreme Court decisions by two-thirds majority and a requirement for a seven-justice supermajority for high court decisions aimed at invalidating any laws passed by states or Congress.
Texas lawmakers are again scheduled to meet in 2017, and Abbott said he plans to ask them to approve a measure calling for a state convention.
“When measured by how far we have strayed from the Constitution we originally agreed to, the government’s flagrant and repeated violations of the rule of law amount to a wholesale abdication of the Constitution’s design,” Abbott wrote in his 90-page proposal, which he announced in a 1 p.m. speech before the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation.
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