Why call for a Constitutional Convention?
-The President's stated desire to "fundamentally transform America"
-Citizens' belief that the government threatens their freedom
-Massive, unsustainable debt and utter refusal to cut spending
-The President's claim of authority to execute American citizens without trial
-Two mutually hostile cultures that cannot live peacefully together under the present government
Topics to be covered:
-Restoring basic civil liberties
-Means of preventing national bankruptcy and auditing federal finances
-Basic decisions about appropriate types of federal taxation and wealth redistribution
-Restructuring the United States as one or more countries featuring limited government under a Constitution, or officially abandoning the federalist system