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Americans aren’t afraid of hard work. Who Are We? Michael Farris, one of the most influential Constitutional We’re also beyond the pettiness of lawyers in the United States, is Senior Fellow for Washington, DC. Now is the time for Constitutional Studies and head of the Convention of States all Americans — from the coasts, to Project. He is the Chancellor of Patrick Henry College, Chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, the farms, to the Beltway — to and the founding president of both. He is one of the few lock arms and decide our nation is constitutional lawyers who have litigated an Article V case. worth a fight. Mark Meckler is the founder and President of Citizens for Self- Governance, the parent organization of the COS Project. Mark A Convention of States is not only our was also the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, one of the The Constitution nation’s largest grassroots advocacy organizations. Mark’s best hope to save our Republic, it might work at CSG and as a leader of the Tea Party movement has has the be our last hope. Will you join us? given him a unique window into grassroots mobilization. Eric O’Keefe is a CSG board member and expert political ANSWER! To download our free step-by-step activist. He founded the advocacy group U.S. Term Limits and handbook and volunteer in your state, truly understands the power of the states and the people to influence Washington. please visit Conventio nOfStates.com. As you can see, we have expertise in Constitutional law and experience mobilizing the grassroots. Convention of States Also, connect with us on is a project of Facebook.com/Conventio nOfStates But we can't do this without you! and Twitter.com/COSproject. Convention of States Project 17341-C Pickwick Drive, Purcellville VA 2013 2 Phone : (540) 441-7227 ConventionOfStates.com Article V “equally A Solution as enables the Big as the Problem general and state governments, to The federal government is broken and incapable of originate the fixing itself. Washington D.C. has bankrupted us, amendment of seized state power, and stolen our liberty. Even good errors.” politicians are handcuffed by the burdens of bureaucracy. — James Madison What can be done? A Convention of States. Can It Work? Do you ever flip on the television or open a What is the Solution? Yes. If two-thirds of state legislatures call for a convention, newspaper and just sigh in disgust? It seems then the people can take back their government — without Did you know states have the power to stop the federal that the nation — the world, really — has any intervention from Congress or the President. The government’s overreach? Article V of the U.S. Constitution convention can be limited to a specific subject — limiting the gone into some sort of spiral, with no signs says that states can call a Convention of States during which power and jurisdiction of the federal government. Any of recovery. delegates propose amendments to the Constitution to halt the proposed amendments must be ratified by three-fourths of the federal government’s abuse of power. Forbes called the states. Congress cannot stop the process, the President cannot It’s enough to make you want to turn off Convention of States an “emergency cord” embedded within veto it, and the Supreme Court can’t overrule it. It’s the the Constitution that permits citizens to seize power from a the television, put down the newspaper, Founders’ vision for national self-preservation. and just give up. After all, what hope — runaway government. “[I]t must be utterly true hope — really exists? “The second clause repugnant to this The Convention of States Project has good of Article V — Constitution to subvert news for the politically weary. empowering the states — is necessary, the state governments We have a solution, which Congress and because left to Congress, or oppress the people.” the President have no authority to stop. “no amendments — Alexander Hamilton of the proper kind The Founders made sure of it. What’s the Plan? would ever be obtained It’s a solution as big as the problem. To call a convention of states, we have to organize the by the people, if the grassroots like never before. Thankfully, people are fed up Government should like never before. We’re currently building a grassroots become oppressive.” network in a minimum of forty states. We are looking for — George Mason hundreds of volunteers to help us launch this effort, by contacting their legislators, supporting their campaigns, and talking to their neighbors and friends about reigning in the government that’s bankrupting all our futures.