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    Texas Governor Abbott calls for 9 amendments to U.S. Constitution

    Fri Jan 8, 2016 3:39pm EST

    Texas Governor Abbott calls for amendments to U.S. Constitution

    AUSTIN, TEXAS | BY JON HERSKOVITZ

    Texas governor Greg Abbott speaks during an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange July 14, 2015.

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    Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for a conference of the states to add new nine amendments to the U.S. Constitution, saying the U.S. Congress, the President and U.S. Supreme Court are eroding the rule of law in the country.

    Speaking at a conservative forum in Austin, Abbott, a Republican, said the federal government, courts and president were overreaching their constitutional bounds and he wanted legislation authorizing Texas to join other states in calling for a "Convention of States to fix the cracks in our Constitution."


    Amending the constitution, however, could prove difficult. Numerous past plans to change the document have been squashed over the decades. Article Five of the Constitution calls for approval by three-fourths of the states for a change, a tough barrier to cross in the current political climate.


    "The cure to these problems will not come from Washington D.C. Instead, the states must lead the way," he said. "The Texas plan fixes this government run amok."


    Abbott, formerly the Texas attorney general and now governor of the most-populous Republican-controlled state, has been a major opponent to Democrat President Barack Obama for years.


    He enlisted broad support from other Republican-dominated states for a lawsuit currently in federal court to block the president's executive order on immigration.


    His nine amendments include requiring Congress to balance the budget, allowing two-thirds of the states to override a U.S. Supreme Court decision and allowing a two-thirds majority of the states to override a federal law or regulation - rights that the states do not have.


    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-te...0UM2CG20160108
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    Texas governor joins GOP calls for constitutional convention

    By Paul J. Weber | AP January 8 at 6:37 PM

    AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sought to lure Republican support Friday for calling the first U.S. constitutional convention since 1787, a new a priority for his administration that has bemoaned federal courts blocking state laws over gay marriage, abortion restrictions and voting rights.


    Conservative calls for states to get together and ratify new amendments to the Constitution are hardly new.

    Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has even vowed to push for a convention if elected, though the idea is generating little buzz in the 2016 presidential race.


    Abbott is now hoping his weight as governor of the nation’s biggest conservative state can revive momentum in an enduring but perennially unattainable dream of some Republicans. His vision also goes beyond the most common GOP desire for a convention — to tack a federal balanced budget amendment onto the Constitution — and outlines a flurry of new state protections that would nullify federal laws and weaken the U.S. Supreme Court.


    One of his nine proposals would require a supermajority of seven justices — out of nine — to invalidate any state law.


    “The Supreme Court is a co-conspirator in abandoning the Constitution,” said Abbott, the state’s former attorney general and a former Texas Supreme Court justice.

    “Instead of applying laws as written, it embarrassingly strains to rewrite laws like Obamacare.”


    Texas in recent years has been a recurring defendant in major cases before the Supreme Court. In March, the court will hear oral arguments over the state’s sweeping abortion restrictions that would leave Texas with fewer than 10 abortion providers, down from more than 40 in 2012.

    Abbott unveiled his plan to a friendly audience of conservative policymakers in Austin, but outside, others called the prospect of a convention far-fetched.


    “There is no remote possibility that is going to take place,” said Lino Graglia, a conservative professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas at Austin.

    “Just to get any constitutional amendment is virtually impossible.”


    For states to call an assembly, it would require approval from 34 legislatures. Over the past four decades, 27 states have endorsed the idea at one time or another, including Texas at a time when the state was controlled by Democrats. Convention proposals were also introduced or discussed in about three dozen legislatures last year.


    Shortly after Abbott took office last year, the Texas Legislature failed to endorse a more narrowly focused convention on conservative ideals. Some Republicans blamed the defeat on fears of a “runaway” convention that would take on myriad issues. Abbott said he wants Texas lawmakers to give their support next time around in 2017.


    Earlier this week, Rubio said if elected president he will advocate for the states to call a constitutional convention to impose term limits on members of Congress. He says creating term limits must come from a grassroots movement because members of Congress will never do it themselves.


    The United States has not held a constitutional convention since George Washington himself led the original proceedings in Philadelphia in 1787.

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    Sorry, no. The problems in our country are not with the US Constitution. The problems in our country are with the Congress and the people we choose as President of the United States. States already have their powers already reserved in numerous articles of the US Constitution.

    http://kxan.com/2016/01/08/gov-abbot...ion-of-states/

    Gov. Abbott proposes constitutional amendments, wants to restore state power

    By Josh Hinkle Published: January 8, 2016, 1:10 pm Updated: January 8, 2016, 5:38 pm

    AUSTIN (KXAN) — A political firestorm could soon spark across the nation, as Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, calls for nine constitutional amendments to rein in the federal government.

    His focus is on Article 5 of the U.S. Constitution, which involves amending the constitution. Over the past the several years, Abbott has taken on the federal government—specifically President Barack Obama’s administration—on everything from healthcare to gun rights to immigration.

    Read Abbott’s full plan

    Abbott offered the following constitutional amendments:

    Prohibit Congress from regulating activity that occurs wholly within one State.
    Require Congress to balance its budget.
    Prohibit administrative agencies—and the unelected bureaucrats that staff them—from creating federal law.
    Prohibit administrative agencies—and the unelected bureaucrats that staff them—from preempting state law.
    Allow a two-thirds majority of the States to override a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
    Require a seven-justice super-majority vote for U.S. Supreme Court decisions that invalidate a democratically enacted law.
    Restore the balance of power between the federal and state governments by limiting the former to the powers expressly delegated to it in the Constitution.
    Give state officials the power to sue in federal court when federal officials overstep their bounds.
    Allow a two-thirds majority of the States to override a federal law or regulation.

    In its most basic explanation, proposing amendments can occur in essentially one of two ways:

    a proposal by Congress with a two-thirds vote in both chambers; or
    a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of all state legislatures.

    But that is just the first step, because an amendment must also be ratified to become part of the Constitution:

    This can happen either by three-fourths of state legislatures or conventions in three-fourths of states.
    The only amendment ratified by state conventions is the 21st. In 1933, this move ended the national prohibition on alcohol.
    Unlike other federal legislation, constitutional amendments do not require approval by the President.

    Changing the Constitution is no easy task:

    Only 27 amendments have been ratified since 1789 – ten of which happened very early with the Bill of Rights.
    Six other amendments were adopted by Congress but failed to gain approval by the required number of states.
    In all, nearly 12,000 amendments have been proposed to Congress.

    Abbott’s speech before the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin could amp up the anti-federal dialogue across the nation, likely leaving Republican White House hopefuls plenty to dissect as the first primary votes are just weeks away.
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    No, No, No, No, No, No. No, No, No.

    The States have so far not demonstrated any competency or courage in the areas of freedom, liberty or governance, in fact, quite the opposite. States were responsible for slavery. States denied women the right to vote. States denied pregnant girls and women the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. States denied blacks equal rights. States denied gay couples the right to marry. States are the ones sucking federal dollars we don't have out of Washington into their States. States are the ones who ratified the 16th Amendment to create the Socialists Income Tax. States are the ones who came up with "mandatory insurance" with their stupid mandatory auto liability insurance establishing the only precedent any federal court needed to stand by Obama Care mandates. States are the ones handing out driver's licenses, birth certificates, Medicaid and in-state tuition to illegal aliens. And I could go on and on but I think I've made my point.

    Don't for a second fall for the absurd theory that States know best. History proves they haven't known best and still don't. Nine suggested Amendments to the US Constitution and not one to repeal the greatest federal tyranny of all? The 16th Amendment? Really, Abbott?

    I am so unimpressed.
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