WHEREAS,  executive orders by the President of the United States have become a vehicle through which the President may overstep the limits of the President's constitutional authority; and

WHEREAS,  the concentration of power at the federal level has had the effect of making federal officials less responsive to the will of the people and more readily influenced by lobbyists, wealthy corporations and special interests in Washington, D.C.; and

WHEREAS,  much of federal law is now made by federal bureaucrats who were never chosen by the people and have no accountability to the people whatsoever; and

WHEREAS,  policy decisions made at the state level tend to be more responsive to the needs and desires of the people; and

WHEREAS,  the Federal Government has created a crushing national debt through improper and imprudent spending; and

WHEREAS,  the Federal Government has invaded the legitimate roles of the states through the manipulative process of federal mandates, many of which are unfunded to a great extent; and

WHEREAS,  the states have the ability to restore the responsiveness of government to the people and to restrain abuses of federal power by proposing amendments to the United States Constitution through a limited convention of the states under Article V; and

WHEREAS,  under the United States Constitution, Article V, the Congress of the United States, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to the United States Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments that, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the United States Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; now, therefore, be it