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REPAIRS FOR BROKEN SYSTEMS: Citizens in California and New York are pushing for constitutional conv?

By Glenn Reynolds

REPAIRS FOR BROKEN SYSTEMS: Citizens in California and New York are pushing for constitutional conventions. “Frustrated with steep budget deficits, unprecedented spending, and chronic government dysfunction, citizens in a growing number of states are calling for constitutional conventions. In recent weeks, both former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former New York governor Mario Cuomo have authored op-eds in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, respectively, arguing that the political circus in Albany compels a constitutional convention. Such efforts are already well underway in California, alongside burgeoning drives in Alabama, Arizona, and Michigan. Altogether, 25 percent of the U.S. population lives in these five states. These growing grassroots movements are a sign of the times.”

The real problem is that we’ve got the worst political class in American history.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).