Washington Will Never Limit Itself. The States Can.
Article V gives the states a constitutional tool to restrain federal power.
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Are you concerned the federal government has exceeded its constitutional limits?
Do you want to see real limits on the federal government—from term limits to spending limits to getting Washington out of healthcare and education?
Do you want to learn about the constitutional tool the Framers gave the states to correct these problems?
If the answer is yes, you’re in the right place.
For decades, Washington D.C. has accumulated power and debt at a pace the Framers never intended. Bureaucratic agencies and career politicians write rules that place undue burdens on American citizens, and successive Presidents play executive order ping-pong, implementing and reversing policy with each new administration. This instability and centralization are not the hallmarks of a healthy constitutional republic.
The Framers anticipated this danger, and they anticipated that Congress would be too feckless to impose limits on their own power. That is why they gave the states the authority to convene an amending convention in Article V of the U.S. Constitution—a safe and effective constitutional process designed to propose the proper kinds of amendments, limited to issues like: fiscal restraints, term limits, and limits on federal power.