{"id":9391,"date":"2024-01-23T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=9391"},"modified":"2024-04-25T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:45:10","slug":"the-article-v-convention-is-a-ruse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2024\/01\/23\/the-article-v-convention-is-a-ruse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Article V Convention is a Ruse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The (Article V) Convention Lobby&#8217;s whole case rests on their false claim that George Mason said that when the federal government violates the Constitution, the solution is to call a Convention to amend the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>But Mason never said such a silly thing.  Nor did any other Delegate to the Federal &#8220;Amendments&#8221; Convention of 1787. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publiushuldah.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/12\/george-mason-never-said-it.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See this most informative Flyer.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please also note James Madison&#8217;s warnings at endnote 3 that those who secretly wish for a new Constitution would push for an Art. V Convention under the pretext of getting Amendments. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/why-madison-hamilton-john-jay-say-to-support-hcr-9-to-rescind.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why Madison and Hamilton Were Against an Article V Convention<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The (Article V) Convention Lobby&#8217;s whole case rests on their false claim that George Mason said that when the federal government violates the Constitution, the solution is to call a Convention to amend the Constitution. But Mason never said such a silly thing. Nor did any other Delegate to the Federal &#8220;Amendments&#8221; Convention of 1787. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9571,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions\/9571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}