Testimony Against a Convention of States
Andrew Schlafly is an attorney who practices before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, which presides over federal appeals from Ohio and three other states. The following are excerpts from his 5/24/22 testimony against a Convention of States.
First. Dark money is pushing the Convention of States, and we do not want billionaire globalists rewriting our Constitution. We have many laws against corruption of politics by money. But billionaire globalists find ways around these laws, and would control a constitutional convention to write amendments that advantage themselves the most.
Second. Our Constitution’s wonderful Treaty Clause establishing the essential safeguard against globalists, requiring 2/3rds approval in the U.S. Senate, could be rewritten, or simply removed.
Third. One of the biggest myths spread about the Convention of States is that the Constitution will be protected by the ordinary process requiring that 38 state legislatures must ratify any proposed amendments. But that is not true. State legislatures may not even be involved in the ratification process.
Article V of the Constitution permits Congress and a runaway constitutional convention to create their own ratification process, using conventions in each state which bypass state legislatures. The 21st and 17th amendments were ratified by conventions in each state, not by ratifying votes in state legislatures.
Fourth. Multiple state conventions could be repeatedly held in each state until ratification is attained. Even the original Constitutional Convention changed the rules in place then for revising the Articles of Confederation.
Fifth. There is not bipartisan support for the Convention of States, but there is bipartisan opposition. Both the Republican and Democratic National Platforms have declined to endorse a Convention of States.
The Florida state legislature should rescind its 2014 application for Congress to call a Convention of States.
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