The Mississippi House has passed a resolution that calls for a convention of the states to pass amendments to the constitution that would ultimately limit the power of the federal government. The convention would be made possible under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
“The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.”
Former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint serves as the Convention of States senior advisor and says that 12 other states have passed the resolution.
“The idea is to restore the original limits of the government and to restrain the federal government fiscally before they bankrupt the country,” DeMint said.
Senator DeMint said that if the states don’t go through with the convention of states, the government will only continue to bankrupt the American people.
“If anyone can look at Washington and think that it is ever going to change, no matter who we elect, they are wrong,” DeMint said. “Our founders envisioned this day and they gave states the tools to come together and do this.
