Texas is trying to fight some of this manipulation via following 9 proposed Amendments including Congress to BALANCE ITS BUDGET (what a joke). This article is courtesy of GRIM:
Texas Governor Calls For Constitutional Convention To "Wrest Power" From Obama
When it comes to Texas' relationship with the Federal government, the
word "rocky" comes to mind. And nobody embodies said rockiness better
than Texas governor Greg Abbott, who recently made headlines after
announcing that irrelevant of D.C.'s demands, Texas would refuse to
accept any Syrian refugees.
Prior to this, Abbott was again in the news back in June when he
signed a bill into law that would allow Texas to build a gold and
silver bullion depository, which would allow Texas to repatriate $1
billion worth of bullion from the New York Fed to the new facility
once completed.
In short: the Federal government and the state of Texas have been on
collision course of many months, one which culminated on Friday when
Abbott called for a Constitutional Convention of states, spearheaded
by Texas, and which would amend the U.S. Constitution to wrest power
from a federal government "run amok."
To achieve that, Abbott proposed nine amendments to "restore the Rule
of Law and return the Constitution to its intended purpose."
“If we are going to fight for, protect and hand on to the next
generation, the freedom that [President] Reagan spoke of … then we
have to take the lead to restore the rule of law in America,” Abbott
said, cited by the Dallas News, during a speech at the Texas Public
Policy Foundation’s Policy Orientation that drew raucous applause from
the conservative audience. He said he will ask lawmakers to pass a
bill authorizing Texas to join other states calling for a Convention
of States.
According to the Hill, Abbott said that "the increasingly frequent
departures from Constitutional principles are destroying the Rule of
Law foundation on which this country was built,” said Abbott in a
statement. We are succumbing to the caprice of man that our Founders
fought to escape. The cure to these problems will not come from
Washington D.C. Instead, the states must lead the way.”
Along with the speech, Abbott released a nearly 70-page plan – part
American civics lesson, part anti-Obama diatribe – detailing nine
proposed constitutional amendments that he said "would unravel the
federal government’s decades-long power grab and restore authority
over economic regulation and other matters to the states."
"The irony for our generation is that the threat to our Republic
doesn’t come just from foreign enemies, it comes, in part, from our
very own leaders," Abbott said in a speech that took aim at President
Obama, Congress and the judicial branch.
Abbott is not the first to propose a convention: the idea has been
gaining traction among some among conservative Republicans, comes just
as the GOP presidential candidates begin to make forays into Texas
ahead of the March primary election. The state, with 155 delegates up
for grabs, will certainly be a key player in the party’s nominating
process.
Earlier this week presidential contender Marco Rubio published a piece
in USA Today endorsing the idea of a convention to amend the
Constitution and restore limited government. In April, 27 active
petitions had been filed with Congress seeking a convention to amend
the constitution to require that Congress adopt a balanced budget.
Abbott's nine proposed amendments are:
Prohibit congress from regulating activity that occurs wholly within one state.
Require Congress to balance its budget.
Prohibit administrative agencies from creating federal law.
Prohibit administrative agencies from pre-empting state law.
Allow a two-thirds majority of the states to override a U.S. Supreme
Court decision.
Require a seven-justice super-majority vote for U.S. Supreme Court
decisions that invalidate a democratically enacted law
Restore the balance of power between the federal and state governments
by limiting the former to the powers expressly delegated to it in the
Constitution.
Give state officials the power to sue in federal court when federal
officials overstep their bounds.
Allow a two-thirds majority of the states to override a federal law or
regulation.
For those unfamiliar, a Constitutional Convention is one of two ways
that the U.S. Constitution can be amended, and it’s described in
Article V. One way is that Congress can propose amendments approved by
two-thirds of the members of both chambers. The other method allows
two-thirds of the state legislatures to call for a convention to
propose amendments. Republicans backing the idea are confident that
because they control state government in a majority of states, their
ideas would prevail.
In both cases, the amendments become effective only if ratified by
three-fourths of the states. Indicatively, of the 27 times the
Constitution has been amended, none was generated by a constitutional
convention.
