FINAL WARNING: Ready to Spring the Trap
stated that we needed a Parliamentary Government, and pledged that
“his people” could get the remaining states needed for a
Constitutional Convention call “in their sleep.”Another threat to our Constitution was the Conference of States (COS).
It was being peddled as a movement for the states to come together
and discuss the need to balance the relationship between the states,
and the federal government, in a “co-equal partnership,” even though
our original Constitution intended for the States to be sovereign, and
for the federal government to only have limited powers.Their first meeting was to be held in Annapolis (MD), July 6-9, 1995,
with a historical reenactment of the 1786 Annapolis convention; and
the second had been planned for October 24-26, 1995 (which,
ironicaIly, was the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the UN), in
Philadelphia (PA), a reenactment of the 1787 convention. It was being
funded by three private organizations which are associated with the
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR): Council
of State Governments (CSG, established in 1930 with funding from a
Rockefeller Grant), National Governors Association (NGA), and the
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL, established in 1933
with funding from a Rockefeller Grant).In December of 1994 the NCSL had a meeting in North Carolina where
state legislators were told the Conference of States was a way for
States to keep the federal government from encroaching on their
sovereignty. So this COS resolution was taken back to their respective
state legislatures and the first 12 states to ratify it was able to
accomplish it through deceit by having legislative leaders introduce it,
bypassing any committees so there would be no hearings, and
bringing it to the floor for a quick vote. According to Michael Leavitt,
the Republican governor of Utah, the goal of the Resolution’s
proponents was to have 26 states pass it, although Governor Nelson of
Nebraska was pressing for 34, which was the exact number of States
needed to call for a Constitutional Convention.Leavitt, a member of the ACIR, told the Salt Lake City Tribune in 1994,
that he wanted a constitutional convention. In a May, 1994 Position
Paper, he said that our government was “...outdated and old
fashioned ... not suited for the fast-paced, high-tech, global-