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Amending the Constitution is intentionally difficult, but not impossible. The usual method has been to have Congress propose and pass potential amendments and then send them to the states to be ratified. However, it\u2019s almost impossible to get congress to pass any amendments that would, to put it bluntly, strip them of their own power.<\/p>\n
This is why the founders of the United States came up with an alternative method that bypasses Congress. Here is what Article V says<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. <\/b><\/p>\n The key section here is \u201cThe Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States.<\/b><\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n This section is what grants the states the right to propose and pass amendments. Now, thanks to the massive overreach of the Federal Government many states have already approved the call for an Article Convention and more are looking into it. Here are the details from Fox News<\/a>: <\/b><\/p>\n A state senator calling for constitutional amendments said that “overreach on the part of the federal government” has forced states to attempt reform in a way never accomplished before.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n The Nebraska Legislature passed a resolution Jan. 28 calling on states to begin the formal process to pass constitutional amendments that would limit the federal government’s spending and jurisdiction, as well as set term limits for members of Congress. <\/b><\/p>\n “What’s driving this as much as anything is overreach on the part of the federal government,” Nebraska state Sen. Steve Halloran, who sponsored the resolution, told Fox News. <\/b><\/p>\n “The Founding Fathers had anxiety that that might happen,” he said. “I don’t believe they imagined that it would get to this point.” <\/b><\/p>\n That would be a bit of an understatement. I suspect the founders would have been breaking out the muskets shortly after FDR blackmailed the supreme court into backing his New Deal program. Since then, things have only gotten worse. As to exactly what Sen, Halloran is proposing, it would basically gut a good chunk of the bureaucratic state that has come into being over the last 90 years.<\/p>\n Halloran’s resolution, LR14<\/a>, is Nebraska\u2019s application for a convention that would discuss amendments to “impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress.” <\/b><\/p>\n “It’s become abundantly clear with the history of Congress that they have no sense of limiting their spending and the accrued debt that’s happening upon our nation,” Halloran said, calling the U.S.\u2019s $30 trillion national debt “unsustainable.”\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n I\u2019m guessing a balanced budget amendment with a line item veto. Perhaps a revisit of the 16th<\/sup> Amendment limiting the amount of money the Federal Government can actually steal from the taxpayers, and, of course, term limits for the Grand Poobahs of the Deep State.<\/p>\n It takes 34 states to call the convention and 38 states are needed to ratify an amendment. Nebraska was the 17th state \u2013 marking the half-way point \u2013 to pass such a resolution since the effort started in 2013. Wisconsin<\/a> passed one the week prior. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n