The following is taken from the Glenn Beck Radio Show on 5/6/09. It is a conversation between him and Judge Napolitano. What they are talking about could very well be a way back to some kind of sanity in American politics. My only complaint is why just threaten to do this? If you are going to try and get it started try and finish it guys.
Judge Napolitano: If 2/3 of the states ask the congress to call a Constitutional Convention to consider the adoption of this amendment which I'll describe in a moment, as it gets closer and closer to the 2/3 necessary and congress would be required to call the convention, you'll see some reaction on the part of congress to attempt to placate the states that want to call this. Now, the constitutional amendment is a simple one. It simply abolishes the 16th amendment and states affirmatively that congress shall have no power to tax the personal incomes of individual persons. If that were enacted, it would starve the federal government back into the original footprint that the founders intended for it. But as it gets closer to enactment, congress will have to do something for fear that it might be enacted.
Let me tell you about another movement that's out there, Glenn, and this is something that was debated by the founders before and since the Civil War and it's called nullification. It's where a state legislature says the federal law that says ABC ‑‑ and I'll give you a few examples ‑‑ shall not be recognized in this state. Now, so far the nullification is in minor things. Arizona and Indiana have nullified the federal law on Daylight Savings Time. California, and New Jersey is about to do this, have nullified medical law on medical marijuana. Montana, this afternoon the governor of sign into law a law nullifying the federal regulation of firearms that are built, sold and used exclusively within the State of Montana.
Well let me know what all you people out there think. Could this be done? and How?
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