[TheRealThing]

What Levin is proposing does not conflict with your quote of George Washington at all and his proposal is an amendment process provided for by the Constitution. Washington was a great believer in reserving as much power to the states as possible. He was reluctant to attend the first Constitutional Convention because he suspected that the attendees would seek to strip power away from the individual states and concentrate it in the federal government.

Based on my understanding of Levin's proposal, it would not be any easier to amend the Constitution than the way that it has been amended in the past. What the proposal would do would be to return some power to the states that was never intended to be vested in the federal government. That is a very conservative position. We will have to disagree about what Washington would have to say about the matter. I think that he would lead a movement to decentralize our government and return much of the federal government's power to the states.

Totally disagree.

The Constitution is clear, the power you speak of already rests in the hands of the States. The States, in times past, abdicated that power because it takes more courage to lead than to follow. Boiled down the same holds true for voters. They don't necessarily have the courage to make judgment on who they should vote for, they want to be told who to vote for, and frankly what to think. How else could one explain politicians not getting laughed off the podium for the ridiculous blather they spew? Thus and rather unfortunately, it would seem that once personal integrity of candidates began to fade, so did the fortunes of this nation.

Mark Levin may be supremely confident that everything will be just peachy, but Washington referred to another convention as usurpation. There is no way to limit the agenda of 'a convention of the states' to only the issues conservatives want to take up. It would be a free-for-all on the scale of the movie "From Dusk to Dawn." The blood of liberty and freedom would likely cover all participants. A runaway power mad federal government that sees it their providential duty to legislate the masses into subjection to their personal views, are not so likely to hand that power back over to them. Let me ask you this, who's going to ride herd over a Congress who will surely limit delegates to themselves, Levin? I mean we're talking about people who yelled the falsehood "hands up don't shoot" from the halls and various wells of The Congress here. Not to mention the likes of Pelosi, Reid, Grayson, Graham, and all the rest lining up behind a federally sponsored anti-cop campaign.

Men and women of such caliber don't govern in the way they are elected to anymore, rather they have been engaged in the wholesale redefinition of America according to the tenets of social justice. Which BTW, gives people a pass on personal responsibility. As things stand, I barely recognize the workings of this land, and a Con Con would hand them the master key to walk through any door they saw fit. Likewise, the people have lost the vision and the ability to discern direction, as they have their own spiritual well being.