Georgia State Representative Buzz Brockway (R-102nd, Lawrenceville) published a post on the Peach Pundit in anticipation of his participation at the Mount Vernon Assembly. Representative Brockway will be one of at least eleven Georgia lawmakers expected to attend the gathering at George Washington’s estate to foster communications among the states and to discuss the possibility of a convention of states in 2014 that would be “solely focused on the task of writing the rules for an Article V Convention.” Per the organizing letter, only state legislators without their staff will be participating in the Mount Vernon Assembly.
Representative Brockway insists that this should not be a right wing thing. He recounted meeting a Hawaiian State Senator at a recent National Council of State Legislators meeting where this self-professed progressive proclaimed: “[I]f we could get Washington to leave us alone, we be a lot better off.” But a vitriolic progressive post at the Daily Kos seemed aimed at discouraging Democrat participation and paints prospective constitutional conventions in purely partisan terms.
Elected officials who will earnestly explore aspects of an Article V convention of states concede that there is a high threshold which must be met to change the Constitution. Moreover, the Framers designed a system which required overwhelming support for any Amendment in order to be enacted.
It will be interesting to learn what sort of framework will emerge from the Mount Vernon Assembly and whether any Democrats had the courage to consider using inchoate Constitutional procedures to make a more perfect Union.
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