Texas Governor Proposes 9 New Amendments To U.S. Constitution

Stressing the importance of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which separates the powers delegated to the federal government from the powers maintained by the states and the people, Abbott accused President Obama, Congress, and the Supreme Court of having “run amok“.

Prohibit Congress from regulating something that only happens in one state. Speaking with reporters while campaigning in Iowa, the USA senator from Texas said a balanced budget amendment is among the add-ons the country most critically needs.

Other amendments are more vague, such as limiting “unelected bureaucrats” from “pre-empting” state laws.

IV. Prohibit administrative agencies-and the unelected bureaucrats that staff them-from preempting state law.

Require a seven-justice super-majority vote for U.S. Supreme Court decisions that invalidate a democratically enacted law.

At the end of December, Marco Rubio pledged to “put the prestige and power of the presidency behind a constitutional convention of the states”.

Abbott goes on to detail the fact that the founders saw the individual states as the best counter to the power of the federal government-as he says, “the entire structure of the Constitution was premised on the idea that the States would be stronger than the national government”.

The proposals aim to reverse the long-standing ruling on nullification of federal laws by individual states, which most experts considered settled following the Civil War.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repeated a call made last week by U.S. Sen.

“That Constitutional foundation is now so often ignored that the Founders would hardly recognize it”, Abbott told the orientation gathering today.

The only amendment ratified by state conventions is the 21.

Liberals have also expressed interest in an Article V convention. The time has come to reclaim the Constitution from the likes of Barack Obama, our liberal Congress and the left-wing activist judges of the Supreme Court. It is very hard for Congress and 38 states to ever agree.

It’s not an usual line to hear in a particularly political year, but in this case, the vehicle Abbott endorsed for amending the US Constitution is quite unusual. “Whoa! Who knows what would come out of it?” The idea has generally been considered something between social-studies trivia and fantasy. Abbott invokes the same terms to endorse amendments that would have similar results. A convention is one of two ways that the U.S. Constitution can be amended, and it’s described in Article V. One way is that Congress can propose amendments approved by two-thirds of the members of both chambers. The plan is unlikely to succeed, however, with 34 states required to approve the proposal.

Abbott left the stage to a thrilled ovation, and as the applause died down the room got to work.

As Abbott was preparing to unveil his proposal on Friday, his protégé in the attorney general’s office, presidential contender Ted Cruz, was pledging to push for “quite a few” constitutional amendments of his own if elected.