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From the Radio Free Michigan archives
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WHO'S WHO IN THE COS PUSH
A tenth state has quietly endorsed a plan that could threaten the
Constitution.
(Spotlight, March 13, 1995)
By Trisha Katson
Organizers of the Conference of the States (COS), a revolutionary plan
to make structural changes to the Constitution, have gotten their tenth
state legislature -- Arizona -- to pass a resolution of participation.
COS promoters are quietly trying to line up Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey,
Montana and Nevada as the next states to support what will be historical
reenactments or the 1786 Annapolis and 1787 Philadelphia conventions.
Three tax-exempt private organizations, funded by U.S. taxpayers and
tax-exempt foundations -- the Council of State Governments (CSG), the
National Governors Association (NGA), and the National Conference of
State Legislatures (NCSL) are publicly pushing the COS, without
grassroots awareness.
The C0S Action Plan outlines intentions to make constitutional,
structural, fundamental, long-term changes to our system of government.
The first meeting is planned for July 6-9 in Annapolis.
A second meeting, which happens to coincide with the 50th anniversary of
the founding of the United Nations, is planned for October 22-25.
COS delegates will be the nation's governors and four bipartisan leaders
from state legislatures. The most prominent COS front man, Utah Gov.
Michael Leavitt, will be a voting delegate.
In a May 17, 1994 memo, Leavitt, a Republican, said the U.S. government
was old-fashioned and outdated for our high tech, global marketplace.
"There was a better way" of governing, he added.
Previously, globalists have complained that the change in the U.S.
economy from an agrarian to an industrial economy made the Constitution
obsolete.
Leavitt, like House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), cites as authorities
futurists like Gingrich guru Alvin Toffler, a global socialist who wants
to prepare the United States to be a service information-based economy.
This fits into the New World Order plan to make America a colony
dependent on the rest of the world for manufactured goods.
The CSG was founded with a Rockefeller grant in 1930, as noted by author
Jo Hindman in her trilogy of books on the imposition of regional or
metropolitan government in America: "Terrible 1313, Blame Metro" and
"The Metrocrats."
Hindman has documented how, since the United States joined the United
Nations in 1945, the CSG has been working to implement UN mandates,
specifically Section 8 of the UN Charter, which imposes regionalism on
its members.
Another group supporting the COS is the American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC).
ALEC has been a driving force working to get state legislators to
support resolutions calling for a constitutional convention ostensibly
on the issue of a balanced budget amendment.
MODEL RESOLUTIONS
The CSG has prepared model resolutions calling for participation in the
COS which, since January, have been introduced in state legislatures
nationwide by a member of either the Democratic or Republican
leadership. The measures are introduced as joint resolutions which are
considered "non-controversial." Then the rules are suspended, and with
virtually no public debate, they are passed, often by voice vote.
The appointed COS delegates will be incorporated and have legal status.
The reason the COS is needed, organizers allege, is to restore the
"coequal partnership" and balance in the federal-state relationship.
Scholars of the Constitution point out, however, that a deliberate
imbalance favoring the states was written by the Founding Fathers into
the Constitution, making the states sovereign and the federal government
an agent of the states.
The federal government is granted specified, limited powers under the
Constitution and the remaining powers are left to the states and to the
people.
One example given by COS organizers of how the balance in the state and
federal government relationship needs to be restored is the issue of
unfunded federal mandates.
Yet these governors and state legislators have not fundamentally
challenged the authority of the federal government to impose these
mandates, but simply requested that block grants be provided to pay for
them.
If COS actually was going to restore power to the states and truly posed
a threat to federal power, there would be some pretty strong opposition
by a jealous federal government. To the contrary, the federal government
is apparently acting in collusion with the COS planners to support the
event.
Although a Republican, Leavitt is a Clinton appointee to a federal
agency, the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR).
The ACIR has been described by Hindman as a UN cell working within the
federal government. The ACIR has worked with the CSG on an
intergovernmental task force to promote constitutional changes,
including proposals to improve on the 10th Amendment.
One of the group's suggestions was "Whether a power is one reserved to
the states, or to the people, shall be decided by the courts." Another
idea was to amend Article V of the Constitution to make it easier to
change the document.
The NGA and NCSL were listed in 1985 as groups which could select
delegates to a proposed convocation of the states to change our form of
government.
The book, "Reforming American Government," by former Clinton legal
counsel Lloyd Cutler's Committee on the Constitutional System, argued in
favor of a British-style parliamentary system, where no separation of
powers and no checks and balances between the three branches of
government would exist.
No known opposition to the COS is evident among internationalist special
interest groups, whether the UN, the World Trade Organization, the G-7,
the European Union, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, to
mention a few.
One would think that any one of them might be concerned that their
global interests could be threatened if the states were engaged in a
legitimate effort to take power back from the federal government.
The COS has been endorsed by Establishment mouthpieces including the
Wall Street Journal, the National Journal, pundit George Will,
Washington Post columnist David Broder, as well as the self-described
conservative Human Events.
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