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(02-17-2015 05:58 AM)Phoenix Wrote:  

Still waiting for that sorely needed Article 5 convention. If it ever happens, and the federal government gets throttled, I'll be buying a flight to join the celebrations.

Ha, if there was an Article V constitutional convention, it would be the Bill of Rights that would get throttled, not the government.

If you haven't noticed, most of the Bill of Rights does not poll very well amongst the American public. Neither political party stands up for the Bill of Rights. They offer different flavors of the same statist, oligarchical policies.

Just as with Congress now, the pressure of vested governmental and private interests on a con-con would lead to significant editing of the Bill of Rights to the detriment of the ordinary citizen. With a new "bill of rights," all of the accumulated case law interpreting the original Bill of Rights would be effectively nullified.

The government is ignoring the Fourth Amendment now, but at least the law is still there and can be revived by the courts, executive, and Congress.