Unearthed Audio: President Dwight Eisenhower makes the case for a Convention of States
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States and Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during WWII, knew a thing or two about freedom.
He understood the importance of self-government and the dangers of losing power to a "distant bureaucracy."
That's why, when he agreed to give a commencement address at Defiance College in Ohio, he decided to tell them about their most powerful tool to rein in that tyrannical bureaucracy: an Article V Convention of States.
"Against the possibility that ordinary and customary processes of self-government might weaken or be found ineffective, or later laws and interpretations of original constitutional intent might conflict with the mass convictions of Americans, the Founders provided a final and decisive means of reformation and restoration by the people themselves," he said.
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