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The New American’s Christian Gomez and Dr. Joe Wolverton, constitutional law scholar for The John Birch Society, discuss the Convention of States (COS) organization’s latest shenanigans of bringing a llama, which they’ve dubbed the “Liberty Llama,” from state capital to state capital in an attempt to corral legislators to vote for their version of an Article V constitutional convention. The COS circus comes on the heals of recent losses in the Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Montana, both this year and last year. The text of Article V is largely silent about key details for how such a federal convention to propose amendments to the Constitution would work. Nevertheless, where COS leaders and speakers Mark Meckler, Michael Farris, Rick Santorum, and Rita M. Peters have failed, COS hopes that its new “Liberty Llama” has just what it takes to convince lawmakers to vote in favor of their model convention application resolutions. Dr. Wolverton also responds to an article written by Rita M. Peters that was recently posted on the COS website regurgitating the same old false arguments that have failed to resonate with legislators. Perhaps “Liberty Llama” could have written a more convincing article for COS?
