Most Americans don’t know beans about The Constitution. This unknowing is perfectly logical. The public education system isn’t interested in the work of a bunch of dead white men. Most Americans don’t know that The Constitution was created in 1787. They don’t know that it was not ratified by all 13 States until May, 1790, a full seven (7) years after the war with Great Britain ended in 1783. For those seven years, there was no Federal Government. The States were sovereign. The newly freed citizens of the new nation weren’t exactly thrilled about the prospect of a Centralized Government. It’s no wonder. They knew all too well what it was like to live under the heavy, oppressive boots of a King. That’s why ratifying The Constitution was no slam dunk. In fact, in March, 1788, Rhode Island actually held a popular referendum to gauge how the rank and file viewed The Constitution. The vote was 237 In Favor and 2708 Against. Two years  later, the vote in the Rhode Island legislature was 34 In Favor and 32 Against. Many of the other States had similar squeaky results.  Americans of today still don’t know that the Americans of yesterday had big misgivings about the reality of a Federal Government. Their concerns were well founded. Because today the States are sovereign no longer. States exist simply as functionaries to a Federal Master.. Unfortunately, too many Americans of today stupidly don’t care about local sovereignty. Americans of today don’t even know that the States were intended  to run their own affairs with very little oversight from the newly formed Federal Government. That intention crashed in the 20th century, hammered continuously by the imperious arm of the SCOTUS. Today, people foolishly don’t know or care that their States have completely subjugated themselves to the Federal Government and have allowed their own citizens to be ruled by the Washington Beltway Club.

Something else oblivious Americans know nothing about is this — they are not governed by The Constitution — not as it was written. Instead, they are governed by what is known as the “Annotated” Constitution — thousands of pages of impressions, assumptions, suppositions, opinions, speculation and interpretation — rulings handed down by the autocratic Supreme Court — a self-important committee of individuals who, in direct violation of The Constitution, gave unlimited power to the Federal Government, rendering The States irrelevant. But, whatever you do, don’t overlook “the rest of the story.” The States have a bulletproof trump card, no pun intended. The Founders didn’t trust central authority. They rightly predicted the emergence of excessive Federal power. Ingeniously, the Framers decided they would not allow the Federal Government  to develop into a dictatorship — without providing some type of corrective remedy.  So they gave America — the people — Article V.

Article V gives the States of America true Absolute Power to put handcuffs on the Federal Government. The move to do just that is now underway through the Convention of States Project (COS). The COS million-person army has mobilized. The battle is being waged in every State. The weighty questions are these:

Will lawmakers in 34 states have the guts  to act?

Will 34 States invoke absolute  power?

Will the States  honor the original Constitution on behalf of a free people?

Are the Americans of today worthy of the Americans of  yesterday?