Showing posts with label convention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label convention. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Tell your U.S. Representative to restore intent of 2007 Ethics bill

Public Citizen has an email your representative campaign concerning the recent U.S. House ethics committee's guidelines on convention parties. These lobbyist-paid "honor" parties for lawmakers have given undue influence on those representatives when they return to the Capitol to vote. The 2007 Ethics bill corrected this, but recently the House ethics committee ruled against the intent of this new law. If you agree, please contact your U.S. Representative and tell them to have the House use the Senate ethics committee's correct banning of these convention parties. Thank you.

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Saturday, December 01, 2007

Ask your Congressmen if they support a U.S. Constitution Article V Convention

Friends of the Article V Convention requests us to ask our Congressmen if they support an American citizen's right to an Article V Convention; then, leave those responses here. Here's an explanation by the Friends of how important this part of the U.S. Constitution is:

Article V of the Constitution of the United States provides that "on the application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, [Congress] shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments...". The Founding Fathers of our nation recognized the importance of providing this means by which the citizens of our country could initiate amendments to change and/or clarify the Constitution; the fundamental document which they intended to be not only the blueprint for our federal system but also "the supreme Law of the Land".
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