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WE THE PEOPLE of the Convention of States movement declare that the United States government has failed to secure the rights of the American people as called for in the Declaration of Independence. Instead, the federal government, dominated by career politicians, has usurped power from the people and the states over many decades, effectively dismantling the principles of federalism that the founding fathers forged into the U.S. Constitution.
We now issue this Open Letter to the States to communicate our grievances with the federal government:
- It has amassed a $30+ trillion national debt with $150 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
- It regularly fails to balance its budget, as most states are required to do.
- It is not held to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, as all businesses are.
- Congress is not required to limit all bills to a single subject, as most states are, leading to massive omnibus federal spending bills.
- Congress unconstitutionally delegates its sole authority to make laws to an unelected bureaucracy.
- The judicial branch unconstitutionally encroaches on the sole authority of Congress to make laws by legislating from the bench.
- The executive branch unconstitutionally encroaches on the sole authority of Congress to make laws through executive orders which change drastically from one administration to another.
- Federal elected officials are accountable to their political parties and special interest groups rather than to their constituents.
- Congress regularly oversteps its constitutionally limited powers in the areas of education, healthcare, energy, the environment and many more.
- It has failed to secure the U.S. border, thus increasing drug and human trafficking and allowing a flow of illegal immigrants who become reliant on services funded by taxpayer dollars.
- It has, at times, made efforts to undermine the Bill of Rights, weaken the justice system, disarm the populace, suppress free speech, regulate religious freedom, and control the mainstream media narrative
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