After several days of defending their
resolution calling for an Article V Convention of States, Virginia lawmakers
withdrew their bills in both the House of Delegates and the state Senate,
conceding that they simply didn’t have the votes. According to an email sent
out by the Convention of States Project, the move was a strategic retreat
rather than a defeat. Call it what you will, I think it is pathetic that so
many lawmakers in the state that produced men like George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, George Mason, and James Madison are so timid in their defense of
liberty. Jefferson was certainly right when he said, “Timid men prefer the calm
of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” (continue reading)
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