Retrospective: Hillary's Email Investigation

Will government ever handle unethical and criminal behavior properly?

Governor William J. Le Petomane: "We've gotta protect our phoney baloney jobs, gentlemen!"
Blazing Saddles, 1974

H. RES. 606 - House resolves Robert Muellar should resign!

Since Comey, who is NOT a Judge, didn't dismiss Hillary's blatantly obvious violation of 18 USC, §793(f) with prejudice, Hillary can be charged with Gross Negligence as she should have been charged in June 2016. Let's not forget Huma Abedin, et. al., who shared Hill's violation. She should be charged as well.

Given the rather obvious bias of FBI DOJ officials against President Trump during the 2016 campaign, i.e., the misuse of the FISA courts to spy on Trump, the DOJ has agreed to provide documents long requested by the House Intelligence Committee, and the scheduled availability of eight DOJ officials for interviews.

Developments from June, 2016 to 2018

Fired FBI Director James Comey received a copy of the Steele dossier, full of unconfirmed fantasies and some of the most unbelievable lies about President Trump, from John McCain who had received the dossier earlier from David Kramer. Comey used the dossier as "evidence" against Trump, and directed FBI agent Peter Strzok to get a FISA warrant to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign for president. The goal was to learn the campaign's strategy against Hillary. If one reads the dossier, it becomes clear that assertions or statements presented as facts are total lies. The FISA Court Judge became furiously angry at Comey for abusing the FISA warrant. If the Judge were President, he would have fired Comey.

Dossier to Get FISA Warrant

It is 100% clear that Rod Rosenstein, a hyper-liberal, card-carrying Democrat (Socialist), appointed Special Prosecutor Muellar not because there is real evidence against Trump that required an investigation, but to cover up Muellar's and Rosenstein's involvement in the Uranium One sale to Russia. What beter way to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest than appointing one of the major players? Rod wanted to continue the "smear" as long as possible. Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, Andy McCabe, and Peter Strzok should be fired immediately, and many more FBI agents and/or various other agency participants in this conspiracy to prevent Trump's election to be identified by the Inspector General's report. CONgress must closely manage the IG and examine the coming report very carefully and objectively.

Additionally, A new Special Prosecutor should be appointed by the new Attorney General to investigate Hillary and the Clinton Foundation because, this time, there is real evidence (Pay-to-Play, Uranium One) that demands an investigation.

Lastly, I always thought that Citizens of the USA live in a free country defined by the Constitution, but Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky, is absolutely right when he states the fact that all citizens are presumed innocent until proven guilty. If a deranged, highly subjective 'True Believer' FBI agent can get a FISA warrant with the appearnce of evidence only, then this country is doomed. While CONgress and the DOJ claim that Title II of the Patriot Act (a very disingenuous acronym), i.e., FISA, is good for fighting terrorism, I think it should be repealed entirely.

Donald J. Trump IS the winner of the 2016 presidential election against 'Crooked Hillary', who got richer while appointed to Sec. of State, despite the DOJ's (other agencies to be identified) CONSPIRACY to prevent his election.

It's rather strange today that estimates show fully 30% of all elected officials and government employees would NOT have passed a Background Check for the offices held if employment application forms of the 1950s through the 1970s were used today. The federal government is riddled with appointees and employees who are risks to national security leaking secret information and forming alliances with potential enemies who are only prevented from attacking America by our armed forces. These federal elected officials and employees are supported by some organizations that threaten America's Constitution and our entire way of life. The future with 50% of Millenials indicating that they favor Socialism and Collectivism over Capitalism and Individualism is bleak. Venezuela (also) is experiencing, right now, the effect of Socialism that the Millenials (and AntiFa) ignorantly feel is so desirable. If one argues against Socialism, then the Socialist will ridicule and verbally abuse you, but the arguer will not hear a viable counter to his view from the Socialist.

While politics, in general, is and has been the source of really dirty tricks and salacious rumors, Democrats appear to be the nastiest of all along with the Establishment Republicans and RINOs in the Senate led by the greatest progessive RINO of all, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. If one has power, one will do anything to maintain that power. Fortunately, U.S. Senators and Representatives can be removed from power in elections.

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
� Winston Churchill

"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."
� Winston Churchill

[Editor's Note: I might replace the word 'liberal' in the last quote with 'Marxist' to fit today's liberal who subverts every move by Americans that want to maintain our freedom.]

Recommendations

I recommend two (2) movies for interested viewers. If Democrat voters (or any voter) want to understand what is wrong with their party, I recommend a documentary movie that contains a completely corroborated history of the Democrat Party. The documentary's title is: Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. The documentary was produced by Dinesh D'Souza who was 'railroaded' by the Obama Administration into a kangaroo court controlled by a corrupt judge and sentenced to prison for producing another documentary, 2016: Obama's America. All FACTS presented in these documentaries are the historical evidence of the failure of the Democrat Party although the Democrats have many allies that support these Communist/Socialist attempts to destroy America, and no group of FAKE NEWS companies can deny the FACTS.

While America has a Constitution that guarantees freedom of speech, it doesn't guarantee an everyday political education. If Americans believe in their freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, if Americans believe that Capitalism is the greatest creator of individual wealth the world has ever experienced (historical facts prove this assertion), then Americans should know the people and organizations who want to destroy America from within. Therefore, the best documentary available that exposes and identifies these enemies who have grown much stronger since the Russian Revolution is The Enemies Within.

Also near the end of The Enemies Within documentary, the video requests that citizens call their Senators and Representatives (those NOT affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and other subversive Marxist organizations) to support S. 68: Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017 and H.R. 377: Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017. After watching the video, you will clearly understand why the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to destroy America from within. Many current Representatives and Senators are affiliated with persons and organizations whose precepts, behavior, and speech are as Marxist as Vladimir Lenin without identifying themselves as Marxist. One of these organizations has infiltrated America like a final stage cancer. These un-American organizations must be excised like a massive tumor. This is NOT McCarthyism since you will SEE and UNDERSTAND the evidence presented in the video.

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
George Orwell

 

Anyone who believes this country is free is an idiot!

RESTORE AMERICA! CUT GOVERNMENT 50%!

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"The politicians only want power so they can 'serve' you."

"Extortion and thuggery are good things when they're called law!"

Larken Rose

CONVENTION of STATES

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FROM NR The FBI�s Dubious Probe of Hillary�s Emails

by DEROY MURDOCK January 6, 2018 4:00 AM

It was a veritable spa of special treatment.

he FBI did everything but drive Hillary�s getaway car. Former secretary of state Clinton is a free woman largely thanks to the tender loving care that the FBI provided her and her conspirators during its probe of her illegal, unsecure email server and related abuse of government secrets. GOP lawmakers concluded this after grilling FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe on December 21, behind closed doors, according to John Solomon�s molar-grinding expos� in Tuesday�s The Hill.

�For the first time, investigators say they have secured written evidence that the FBI believed there was evidence that some laws were broken,� Solomon reported. This proof includes what Solomon calls revelations of �irregularities and contradictions� in the FBI�s inquiry.

  • Former FBI director James Comey�s first draft of his statement exonerating Hillary Clinton was dated May 2, 2016. But FBI agents on this case still were collecting subpoenaed documents and other relevant evidence. They cataloged additional exhibits on May 13, 19, and 26.
  • Comey wrote his �Free Hillary!� speech before 12 to 17 separate witnesses had been questioned, including Hillary herself. She was not interrogated until July 2 � fully two months after Comey penned remarks that kept her out of jail. He publicly delivered his words of absolution that July 5, in a widely covered press conference.
  • Comey�s May 2, 2016, draft reportedly declared, �The sheer volume of information that was properly classified as Secret at the time it was discussed on email (that is, excluding the �up classified� emails) supports an inference that the participants were grossly negligent in their handling of that information.�
  • Hillary is only human. Even her critics might excuse a couple of goof-ups in which she accidentally exposed a classified record or two. However, Hillary operated a busted water main of classified data that flowed in from State and then gushed out of her lawless, do-it-yourself server. These 113 �born classified� records included eight Top Secret emails, ten Confidential ones, and 37 Secret messages.
  • Comey�s first draft correctly called this behavior �grossly negligent.� That precise legal standard should have triggered Hillary�s prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917, 18 U.S. Code � 793. Luckily for her and her comrades, Peter Strzok � a disgraced, vociferously anti-Trump and volubly pro-Hillary FBI official � excised those words and inserted �extremely careless,� language absent from that statute. This removed the pesky formulation and helped Hillary sway voters rather than federal jurors.

    GROSS NEGLIGENCE STATUTE

    [Editor's Note:

    18 USC, §793(f): "Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense,
            (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or
            (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."

    If one has learned the Grade School skill of reading, then one can readily discern that the words "intend", "intent", "intended", or "intention" are not written in the above statute. The statute merely describes a person's behavior that is "Gross Negligence". ]

    5 JAN 2018: Tom Fitton - Clinton Email Scandal Worse

    12 JAN 2018: Tom Fitton's Wkly Upd: Clinton Emails, Comey Memo Records, Clinton Dossier, DACA, & Haiti/Clinton Corruption

    [Editor's Note: Also, there seems to be evidence that Abedin was passing secret documents regarding the location and operational activities of submarines to terrorist sources. This is probably just a rumor. ]

  • Comey�s May 2, 2016, draft was written the day before FBI agents interviewed Hillary�s computer specialist, who contradicted his earlier testimony and confessed that he illegally destroyed pertinent records that Congress sought.
  • As former national-security adviser Mike Flynn can attest, lying to the FBI is a felony. But in this case, Solomon explains, �the FBI decided not to pursue criminal charges against the witness, and instead gave the technician an immunity deal so he could correct his story.�
  • This technician, who handled Hillary�s server after it left her Chappaqua, N.Y., mansion, also unlawfully erased emails on its hard drive � soon after Hillary�s attorney, David Kendall, and her State Department chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, spoke with staffers at Platte River Networks, the technical adviser�s employer.

�You have a conference call with Secretary Clinton�s attorneys on March 31, 2015, and on that very same day her emails are deleted by someone who was on that conference call using special BleachBit software,� Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R., Iowa) said on the Senate floor. �The emails were State Department records under subpoena by Congress,� as of that March 25.

�What did the FBI do to investigate this apparent obstruction?� Grassley wondered. �According to affidavits filed in federal court � absolutely nothing.�

  • Also scot-free is Hillary�s top aide, Huma Abedin. According to Judicial Watch, whose Freedom of Information Act lawsuit liberated State documents, �at least 18 classified e-mails� migrated from the State Department�s secured computers to Hillary�s illegal server to the laptop that Abedin shared with her ex-husband, imprisoned pedophile Anthony Weiner, a former Democratic congressman from Brooklyn. �This classified material includes discussions about Saudi Arabia, The Hague, Egypt, South Africa, Zimbabwe, the identity of a CIA official, Malawi, the war in Syria, Lebanon, Hamas, and the PLO,� a Judicial Watch news release noted on Thursday. Abedin also sent sensitive State Department passwords to her unprotected personal Yahoo account.

Secrets also flowed from Abedin�s Blackberry onto Weiner�s PC. �A July 9, 2011, email contained classified information regarding a then-upcoming call between Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu,� Judicial Watch specified. �On November 25, 2011, classified information was sent regarding [then-U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey] Feltman�s notes on the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs� impression of the Hamas-Palestine Liberation Organization talks.� So far, Team Hillary has suffered zero consequences for handling state secrets as reverently as one would treat old newspapers.

Kristian Saucier should be so lucky. The former Navy machinist took six photos within the classified area of the USS Alexandria, a nuclear submarine on which he served in 2009. He wanted to show his family his workplace. This was illegal, but hardly nefarious.

Nonetheless, Saucier was prosecuted for unauthorized possession of defense information. He pled guilty, spent one year in federal prison, and is undergoing six months of house arrest. He is now a garbage collector, and his home is in foreclosure.

�We�re really struggling,� Saucier told Fox News Tuesday. �Bill collectors are calling every day. I make only half what I used to make.�

�Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin flagrantly mishandled high-level information, making it available to a pedophile, and they get away with it,� Saucier added. �They should still be charged the same as me.�

Meanwhile, Hillary jets willy-nilly around the globe and even denounced President Trump�s North Korea policy as � dangerous and shortsighted� while peddling her book in Seoul, just 120 miles from Kim Jong-un�s Pyongyang headquarters. This was her most despicable misdeed since losing the White House.

This farce is the polar opposite of the national ideal chiseled in marble above the entrance to the Supreme Court: �Equal Justice Under Law.� It will remain so until Hillary Clinton, her henchpersons, and her FBI fan club are all locked up.

[Editor's Note: While events have obviously shown actions by agents that are illicit, unethical, immoral, and criminally illegal in a fanatical effort (dossier for FISA warrant & Muellar's bogus investigation) to prevent Trump's election, I seriously doubt if there will be indictments or terminations or any justice at all for these failures. This is the usual result. In the private sector, these identified persons who failed to perform legally would both be terminated and charged for their crimes. What is wrong with a government that gives a free pass to criminals? Any private citizen would eventually be fired and face charges for much less than what is alledged to have happened here. ]

Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice
... when the court wasn't part of the L-E-J Cabal

Joseph Story (1779�1845) was born during the American Revolution, and came of age in the early years of the new United States of America. He was a scholar of the U.S. Constitution, and, eventually helped found the Harvard Law School.

In 1811, Story was appointed to the Supreme Court by President James Madison — who knew a few things about the U.S. Constitution, in that he helped write it. Story was a contemporary of another famous member of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall (1755�1835).

In 1833, Justice Story published a study titled, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. In a discussion of the Second Amendment, Story stated:

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."

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[Editor's Note: what I have dubbed the "Legislative-Executive-Judicial Cabal" which the American People have caused by ignoring the generational transition from our Constitutional Republic to what now is, in effect, an "elected" dictatorship. Never mind who is elected. Never mind which bogus party is in power. The superficial, theatrically staged, choreographed appearance of debate, disagreement, and stalled legislation always resolves into more government and less FREEDOM. We the People still lose more freedom after every "emergency" or unnoticeably when CON-gress passes another general, open-ended law that enables the Executive (dictator) and its unaccountable agencies to formulate more freedom-restricting regulations (200 pages a day get posted to the Federal Register). The "Dictator's" agencies (police force) continue to pile-up more weapons to squelch uprising(s) when the People finally realize and understand their tyrannical government.

A Convention of States is necessary to amend the Constitution for Congressional Term Limits to twelve (12) years and restrict time in DC to only six (6) months per year. Such an Amendment is only a FIRST step in restoring America to its Constitutional roots. Back in the day when the People still feared kings, the president's term was limited by Constitutional Amendment.

Currently, CONgress is just a group of socialists, progressives, and faux-conservatives (career politicians) that, on a daily basis, ignores the Constitution, many of their own past statutes, and cedes their responsibilities to the president ("elected" dictator). A comparison to the history of Rome becomes more and more credible with the Executive and its "featherbedded" lackeys gaining more power while CONgress sits back all fat-dumb-and-happy.

CONgress has made recent efforts to expose State Dept. failures in Benghazi (inept political leader), Fast-and-Furious gun-running (criminal AG), IRS 1st amendment violations, gov't union Veterans Administration fraud, and whining about Obama(Reid)-killer-Care, but these efforts are mostly politics as usual. Most "citizens" will forget about these infringements from our unaccountable, uncontrollable Executive branch with its tyrannical agencies staffed by socialist unions that extort "juicy" contracts from the "elected" dictatorship.

Most positions in the federal government whether elected, appointed, or hired are nominal, make-work jobs (confidentially) designed merely to grow government, bilk money from private businesses and citizens, and eventually fully transform America into a totalitarian state. When this happens, CONgress will have destroyed the economy and the country by their negligence and counter-liberty policies, and it will be almost impossible to Restore America. The 'Restore America' list is only a beginning too.]

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

James Madison, Federalist Paper 47, Friday, February 1, 1788

Anyone who believes this country is free is an idiot!

RESTORE AMERICA! CUT GOVERNMENT 50%!

"Extortion and thuggery are good things when they're called law!"

Larken Rose

[Editor's Note: a Constitutional Convention is required to reverse the damage to freedom and liberty since 1900. This Article V was ratified by the participants at America's founding Constitutional Convention as an alternate path for repairing damage to freedom and liberty, a path for the People to restore damage caused by our failed representatives in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of a government designed to represent the wishes of We the People.

The States must "demand" a Convention and explicitly specify an agenda of:

  1. laws to be repealed or modified,
  2. Amendments to existing constitutional clauses that define the co-equal branches to further specify and define, and
  3. new Amendments or statutes to be eventually ratified by States.

These Amendments should further specify and clarify the powers of the Legislature and Executive Branches. A good example is the definition of a "Bill". A Bill should contain ONLY verbiage in regards to the topic of the future law. NO earmarks and NO unrelated sections or attacments.

Many past Bills sent to a president for signature contained unrelated but essential funding sections that rendered the Bill veto-proof when it warranted a veto. CON-gress can override a veto if the Bill is deemed absolutely necessary by CON-gress. If the Bill requires SPECIFICALLY related amendments, the CON-gress can "debate" (with its usual theater) and vote any new amendments.

The original text of the Constitution contains some very GENERAL clauses enabling both CON-gress and Executive branches to write laws and regulations with their particular nuances expanding powers beyond intent. "Intent" may be gleaned from a complete understanding of Federalist Papers. An example of further specification and clarity for CON-gress should be a clear, very specific definition of the boundaries for the interstate Commerce Clause.

To restore freedom, liberty, and individuality - minimally these must be repealed:

  1. the 16th Amendment,
  2. the Federal Reserve Act,
  3. the War Powers Act,
  4. all Asset Forfeiture laws,
  5. the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)
  6. the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act
  7. NDAA
  8. Homeland Security which includes TSA
  9. the Dodd�Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
  10. most Eminent Domain laws, and
  11. the Affordable Care Act

Currently, even with computer-searching systems, the list of antiquated and/or obsolete statutes (and related regulations) is unwieldy. These statutes must be invalidated unless there remains an applicable reason for retaining the law(s).

Aside from invalidating statutes, there are many regulations that are biased in favor of large enterprises (who buy support from bureaucrats) at the expense of the competition, effectively repressing the Free Market. Any regulations not related to public safety that gives a financial advantage to some companies over their smaller rivals must be rescinded to enable all companies with good consumer products to excel without burdensome regulations.

Additionally, the Convention should adopt for ratification at least these new Amendments or statute modifications:

  1. clearly define and limit the role of government in regards to the term "general welfare",
  2. Term Limits for CON-gress (12 years) including a 6 month limit on time residing in DC,
  3. strict Prohibition of Lobbying (with a comprehensive definition of "lobbying"), and
  4. a Balanced Budget Amendment to stop wreckless spending. During a CON-gressionally declared "war" (only after USA is attacked or attack is proven "imminent"), deficit spending is permissible.
  5. Restore America to its roots, i.e. Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice. Some Agencies are required like CIA and NSA, both respectively focused on defense against real foreign aggressors and not fictitious paranoid delusions of war mongers. Other agencies help where certain interstate communications are necessary. Most agencies like Agriculture, Education, DEA, IRS (eliminated with 16th Amendment) and many other listed here should be eliminated.
  6. Restore the world Gold Standard with five contentious steps, and
  7. Replace the IMF, World Bank, and Export-Import Bank with facilities that reflect the new Gold Standard, and
  8. After decentralizing and economizing, if tax revenue is needed to fund all or part of the federal government, then implement the Fair Tax.

Regarding a Constitutional Convention itself, some of the available literature warns the reader about a possible "unstructured" and "mismanaged" Convention that might propose and adopt amendments that could damage the Republic. Possible, however, it is difficult to envisage how much more damage could done over what the L-E-J Cabal has already done. If the Convention's agenda and rules of order strictly prohibit violation of the rules and enable a vote on unlisted Amendments AFTER all others are adopted, then the Convention will be properly structured and managed. ]

Why Do We Need Term Limits?

John Adams said, �Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey�. That being said, here are some of the reasons we believe our country needs Term Limits.

  1. Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests.
  2. Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of Congress to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress.
  3. Term Limits will break the power special interest groups have in Congress.
  4. Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.
  5. Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas to Congress.

Term limits for lawmakers: when is enough, enough?

[Editor's Note: If you want to get rich, i.e. advance from a low paying government bureaucrat job on the local or state level, THEN GET ELECTED TO THE US CONGRESS (House or Senate). Once you're elected, it's easy to steal from your campaign contributions or the Congressional budget allocated to your seat and staff. You can go on a government-funded junket with 'lavishly' paid expenses. The list of ways to steal from the government while in office is inexhaustible. There are only a few Congressmen who left Congress just wealthy instead of a multi-millionaire. Of course, there are several who arrived in Congress as multi-millionaires and don't need to steal from the government.]

 

CONVENTION of STATES (CoS)

CONVENTION of STATES

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The CONgress (by Article V of the Constitution) has proposed and States have ratified many new amendments to the Constitution, some that increase their power over us citizens. CONgress can propose amendments, and the alternative method to CONgressional proposals can come from States via Article V. When "We the People" — meaning a very large majority — are opposed to Acts of CONgress like the INCOME TAX or ENDLESS WARS or the FEDERAL RESERVE, Acts that restrict and regulate our LIBERTY, Acts that are a waste of money, Acts that have caused unrecoverable indebtedness, then through local representaatives of our States WE can propose Amendments to be ratified by States just like CONgress.

STATES and the PEOPLE of America are very angry at the federal goverment's violation of its constitutionally-defined boundaries. States created the federal government in 1787 with LIMITED powers defined in the Constitution. All powers not given by States to the feds remain with the States by Article X. The feds have through deceit, distortion, and falsification rearranged the entire contractual agreement between States and the federal government. The feds have become a very powerful, all consuming force in American government. The time has come for States to rein in the federal government, to take power back, to limit the federal government's power, and to add some detailed restriction to the definition of CONgress, the Executive, and the Judiciary.

In 1787 a central government was (is) necessary only to provide for the common defense and ensure equality under the law for all Citizens, to provide a final arbiter for the resolution of unsolvable problems among States and People. Most laws and regulations that the federal government has wreaked on the States and the People are unconstitutional. States are independent, sovereign countries who realized the need for a limited and defined central government to prevent wasteful duplication of effort. The federal government, in 2017, is OUT OF CONTROL, infringing and interfering with State sovereignty and their separate economies. A problem arose in 2012 with Arizona's attempt to secure their border with Mexico. An article is here. States can prevent infringements by the federal government with an Aricle V Convention of States to not only reverse past federal government "power grabs" but prevent future federal government violations of their Constitutionally-defined boundaries.

A new, well-organized group of volunteers in all 50 states have gathered to restore America to its roots by limiting all 3 branches of the federal government with a Convention of States (CoS) organization (alternate site, CoS Action). This is a Convention of States to AMEND the Constitution — NOT rewrite it! Recently, CoS held an Article V, Convention simulation with appointed volunteers from all 50 States. The simulated Convention demonstrated how a well-organized CoS can vote for proposed amendments to the Consitution that are popular enough to be ratified by the necessary 3/4ths of States (38). Obviously, only proposed Amendments that are likely to pass both Houses of the legislatures of thirty-eight (38) States, that is, the required 3/4ths of States to ratify an Amendment to the Constitution should be proposed. See the Final Report here. The purpose in a Convention of States, simulated or real, is to PROPOSE AMENDMENTS that give power back to the People. The proposed amendments must reflect the thinking, objectives — the goals of people of States — who want to restore our Constitutional Republic to one that represents the people.

ARTICLE V Convention of States—Restore the Appropriate Balance!

ARTICLE V Convention of States—Restore the Appropriate Balance!

ARTICLE V Convention of States—Restore the Appropriate Balance!

A real CoS, requires that 2/3rds of States (34) send an "application" to CONgress requesting that CONgress schedule a CoS. State Legislatures are composed of an Assembly and Senate. Each "house" must pass a bill separately and send the resolution to their Governor. Then the State sends an "application" to the CONgress. When the federal CONgress receives applications from 34 States, the CONgress is required to set a date for the Convention of States. CONgress is NOT involved otherwise. The States have the Convention, propose amendments, and dispatch the precisely worded amendments to their respectives assemblies and senates for ratification. CONgress only schedules the Convention.