This is the First GOP Candidate to Support Constitutional Convention – Who’s Next?
Conservative talk-radio host Mark Levin’s book “The Liberty Amendments” has influenced GOP Presidential candidate Marco Rubio to call for a Constitutional Convention if he’s elected President. He sees it as one of the most important steps to set term limits and pass a balanced budget amendment. According to The Blaze:
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio called for a convention of the states to amend the Constitution to push for term limits, a balanced budget and other measures.
“One of the first things I will do when I am in office is … put the weight of the presidency behind of a constitutional convention of the states so we can pass term limits on members of Congress and the Supreme Court, and so we can pass a balanced budget amendment,” the Republican presidential candidate told an audience in Clinton, Iowa, Tuesday.
The announcement was well received by the Convention of States Project, which put out a video after the announcement.
Meanwhile, syndicated talk-radio host Mark Levin, whose book, “The Liberty Amendments,” helped inspire the movement, tweeted, “Rubio endorses Convention of the States! Will other GOP contenders support it as well?”
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Rubio is not the first GOP candidate to back to idea. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has championed the idea in the past but has talked little about it during his campaign. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also supports a convention. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who dropped out of the GOP race, also endorsed the idea.
After talking to the crowd, Rubio talked to reporters about the idea, the Des Moines Register reported.
“It is something we feel very positive about. I think it is the only way that you are ever going to get term limits, and the only way that you are ever going to get a balanced budget amendment,” Rubio said. “I think you would have to limit the convention, and that is what they are proposing: a very limited convention on specific delineated issues that they would talk about — like term limits and a balanced budget amendment.”
Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, 34 states are required for a Convention of the States, and amendments would have to be ratified by 38 states.
It’s interesting to see the Liberty Movement, promoted successfully by Ron Paul and others, is growing in popularity. Those of us familiar with the Constitution know that the way to amend it, is through Constitutional Conventions. Not through signing statements and Executive Orders. Those aren’t Constitutional.
What do you think? Is a Constitutional Convention a good idea? Why or why not? Leave a comment with your thoughts below.
Rubio is mistaken in his call for a Con Con. If it were called, the Convention would not be limited in what it can do and may abolish our form of government completely. We must stop this insanity now. The Founders would be appalled at this.
The original Constitutional Convention was called because the new government was bankrupt under the international bankruptcy law at that time. They gave us a Republic then, but it is long gone with the passage of the Act of 1871, which created the corporate UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
first thing to ask rubio is how is he in the us in the first place.
Was he born here or in Cuba?
From Wiki:
Rubio was born in Miami, Florida,[1] the second son and third child of Mario Rubio Reina[2] and Oriales (née Garcia) Rubio. His parents were Cubans who immigrated to the United States in 1956,
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke