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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.
Such circumstances necessitate a recurrence to the principles upon which these United States were founded:
- That all persons are created equal.
- That the equality of persons is derived from the equal standing of their individual rights; these rights include life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.
- That these rights are not established by government; government is established, with the consent of the governed, to secure these preexisting rights.
- That whenever government fails in securing these rights, it is the duty of the people to alter the government to better secure these rights.
We now issue this Open Letter to the States to communicate our grievances with the federal government...
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