South Carolina & Virginia Call For a Convention of States Under Article V of the Constitution

[GlennBeck.com] In September, Glenn interviewed Mark Levin about the options afforded to the states under Article V of the Constitution as outlined in his book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Public. On radio this morning, Glenn shared the news that South Carolina and Virginia have formally called for an Article V Convention of State (COS), and Florida is expected to lend its support to the cause later this week.

“I have been talking to several people that I trust – and are not radicals at all – that know the Constitution. And I have been asking them all, ‘Have you read Mark Levin’s book? What do you think of a Constitutional Convention,’” Glenn explained. “Constitutional Convention scares the crap out of me because it opens everything else up, however, that’s only if the states are out-of-control. And there are a lot of people now fighting it on the conservative side… I believe this is the only way back. There’s a massive reset coming, and the Constitutional Convention is the way [the founders imagined] it.”

For those unfamiliar with Article V of the Constitution, it is a mechanism put in place by the founders to enforce a checks-and-balances system for the federal and state governments. While amendments to the Constitution can be proposed and passed in Congress, Article V also allows for the states themselves to propose amendments. If two-thirds of the states submit an application to Congress, Congress must then call a Convention of States to propose amendments to the Constitution.

The South Carolina COS Project and state legislator Bill Taylor (R-Aiken) are leading the charge. Rep. Taylor explained the American people are simply not happy with the Washington D.C.

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