The Article V Movement

"This is where America stands today: a tyrannical president who is coldly robbing millions of Americans of their healthcare; a renegade judiciary that cannot be relied upon to faithfully follow the word of the Constitution; a power hungry, goose-stepping party that works relentlessly to drag the nation down the road to serfdom; and a castrated opposition party too afraid to fight for their principals."

So writes Mark Levin, popular radio personality and president of the Landmark Legal Foundation.

Unlike so many critics, Levin does more than just identify the problem. He offers a legitimate solution. That's what his latest book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic, is about. The answer, he says, is to be found right in our Constitution, in Article V. In a recent Front Page Magazine article, 

"He explains [in his book] that '[Article V] provides for two methods of amending the Constitution.” In the first method, “two-thirds of Congress passes a proposed amendment and then forwards it to the state legislatures for possible ratification by three-fourths of the states[.]' The second method 'involv[es] the direct application of two-thirds of the state legislatures for a Convention for proposing Amendments, which would thereafter also require a three-fourths ratification vote by the states.' It is the second method he focuses on. 

"This process, it is important to point out, does not provide for a constitutional convention. Instead, it provides a way to offer Amendments to the Constitution over the heads of our inept political ruling class and at the same time preserves enough roadblocks to prevent a runaway caucus. Levin supplements all eleven of his proposed Amendments with the words of the Framers, showing that each of the ideas is in the tradition of their thinking, and offers examples of how these values are at risk by an ever-expanding and oppressive federal leviathan."

Hear Levin talk about this Article V process at his website.