Lobbyist Ken Quinn failed, once again, to convince State legislators to call for a Constitutional Convention. Instead of realizing he has a losing argument, he blames legislators for not voting the way his polls predicted they should on HCR 1 & HCR 4.
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Both resolutions wisely voted down the Article V Conventions to address fiscal restraint and term limits.
Each Resolution has the same goal to force the US Congress to call for a Constitutional Convention, the second method to amend the Constitution. Since the 1787 Convention, there have been 27 Amendments passed into law by the first and safe method in Article V: 2/3 of each House pass the Amendment, which is submitted to the states for ratification.
After my testimony at the HCR 1 hearing on Jan. 27, Quinn came to the microphone as the last speaker, using the advantage that no one could follow to counter his words. By not using my name, he referenced my testimony that I quoted from Madison’s letter of November 2, 1788, to George Turberville, saying that Madison’s letter did not contain my claim. On the contrary, this is my quote from the 1/27 testimony: “ that he trembles for the results of a second Convention.”
On Feb 24, 2023, he again misrepresented Madison by telling Montana Representatives, at the hearing on his “term limits” application (HJ 5), that Madison never said he trembled at the prospect of Article V Convention. Joanna Martin pointed him to this.
Read for yourself; he again misrepresented Madison by telling Montana Representatives, at the hearing on his “term limits” application (HJ 5), that Madison never said he trembled at the prospect of an Article V Convention. See for yourself. You’ll find the source of my quote of Madison when you read Joanna Martin’s full quote. How can one disagree with Martin’s conclusion “that he is not a truthful person?”
Time and again, Mr. Quinn is consistent in misrepresenting what his political adversaries say. For brevity, I’ll just stick to this one example of his strategy to use a “fraudulent claim.” Don’t you think one who stoops to deception is like the one apple that spoils the whole barrel? This moral dilemma brings to mind the survivor of the Soviet Gulag, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. He keenly pointed out: “The line between good and evil runs through the human heart.”
History reveals that the safe method to amend our Constitution from Article V gave us the Bill of Rights. Consider the fact that the Bill of Rights is similar to the Ten Commandments. God gave mankind his rules to limit man’s behavior at Mount Sinai. In both, they start with almost identical commands. The Bill of Rights targets the behavior of government with the words: “Congress shall make no law….” And The Ten Commandments words are, “Thou shall have no….” Consider the fact these eternal foundations of liberty limit individual morality and put limits on government behavior. In both cases: they are not the “Ten Suggestions.”
