Title: Why I Voted for COS

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Why I Voted for the Convention of States Project Resolution 

•  I am concerned about the potential mischief our current President may cause 

through the use of executive orders. COS would allow the states to consider 
proposing a constitutional amendment to restrain the President’s power to make 
law through executive order.  
 

•  Many South Carolinians today are living in fear of their federal government. They 

are eager to see the states use their constitutional power under Article V to limit 
the reach of the federal government. 
 

•  The concentration of power at the federal level has had the effect of making 

federal officials less responsive to the will of the people and more readily 
influenced by lobbyists, wealthy corporations, and special interests in Washington 
who donate obscene amounts of money to their election campaigns. COS would 
allow the states to impose fiscal restraints on Washington that would curtail the 
ability of federal officials to dole out favors to those special interest groups, thus 
drastically reducing their power over our elected representatives. 
 

•  I am concerned about the degree of power that is now concentrated in the hands of 

federal bureaucrats who were never chosen by the people and have no 
accountability to the people whatsoever. COS would allow the states to discuss 
ways of limiting the power of federal agencies and/or making them more 
accountable to our elected officials. 
 

•  COS is a grassroots-driven effort to bring about reforms desired by the American 

people but resisted by Washington, DC. I believe that government at every level 
should be more responsive to the people.