Title: Maryland Surge Article

Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/maryland-surge-article|maryland-surge-article]]

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Created: 2023-10-04 18:18:44

Updated: 2023-12-27 16:22:37

Published: 2023-10-23 03:00:00

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**{{https://content.conventionofstates.com/cosaction-prod/public/content/images/77857/77857_original.jpg?570x368}}The Choice is Yours**\\
**CHOICE is at the heart of the Convention of States movement.**\\
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Like you, we trust the people of this great nation to choose the path for our government. And if that government takes a turn in the wrong direction, we trust the people – through Article V of the Constitution – to make a course correction.\\
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The framers of the Constitution recognized the inherent flaws of human nature. They added Article V as the safety valve for a time when the people would inevitably choose to take a ‘time-out’ and get things back on track.\\
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With over 32,000 petition signers in Maryland and 2,500,000 nationwide, Convention of States represents ordinary citizens who feel disenfranchised from the daily workings in our nation’s Capital. They feel frustrated that our nation is sinking further into debt that has now exceeded $33,000,000,000,000 and forfeiting the next generation’s future. Citizens feel helpless with the bureaucratic morass endemic to a government built on [[https://www.usa.gov/agency-index|thousands of departments, agencies, and bureaus]].\\
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We’re avidly non-partisan and pro-good-government. At the federal level, our national government is doing too much, stretched too thin, and is doing none of its work well. We believe that state legislatures and local governments are better suited to balance the scales on behalf of their citizens.\\
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To date, 27 amendments have been proposed by Congress, debated, and then ratified using Article V of the Constitution. But **Article V also allows for the States to meet in Convention to discuss, debate, and potentially propose new amendments**. Like those proposed by Congress, any amendments proposed by a convention of the states must be approved by three-fourths (38) of the states.\\
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**Here’s where you come in: as State Senators and Delegates, YOU can choose to support an Article V Convention of States that will consider amendments to impose fiscal restraint on Washington, manage the size and scope of the federal government, and consider term limits for federal officials.\\
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Will you choose to stand with the citizens of Maryland?\\
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**//The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, //**//or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution,//**// when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.//