How a ‘Convention of States’ really works
- March 4, 2021
Colorado’s [marijuana “legalization”] is a jerrybuilt legal scheme that, like many other “progressive” programs, looks more like racketeering than true legalization.
READ MORE. . . Those who adopted the Constitution understood that governance of recreational activities, such as sports, was reserved to the states. Regulation of in-state gambling, like other moral issues, similarly was outside the federal sphere.
READ MOREFunctions outside the federal sphere were to include “social services, education, criminal law, civil justice, land use, and others.”
READ MORENew Hampshire was, and is, quite a small state, but its ratification was particularly significant.
READ MORE[D]uring the 2013 shutdown, the Department of the Interior announced it was closing Rocky Mountain National Park . . . No problem: Colorado state government kicked in the money . . . and it stayed open. A few Coloradans began to ask, “Who needs the feds to run the park after all?”
READ MOREArticle V of the Constitution states that “The Congress . . . on Applications of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments.”
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