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Arizona rescinds constitutional convention calls. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
America has taken another step away from the brink of an Article V constitutional convention. On April 1st, the Arizona House of Representatives approved without dissent a resolution rescinding all of its prior applications to Congress to call a convention for proposing amendments to the U. S. Constitution. The Arizona Senate had previously approved the resolution, also without a dissenting vote.
The Constitution's Article V contains the mechanism whereby Congress must call a convention after receiving applications from the legislatures of two-thirds of the states. At one point, America was precariously close to a convention after 32 of the necessary 34 states had called for it, for the stated purpose of drafting a balanced budget amendment. Few realize that such a convention could not be limited to a single purpose and would allow for dangerous wholesale changes in the Constitution, likely disfiguring it beyond recognition. Expressing concern on this ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Arizona rescinds constitutional convention calls. (Insider...