Constitutional activist Meckler: States need to take back their authority after Feds COVID mandates

Mark Meckler, President of the Convention of States Project, discusses how Federal Government COVID-19 overhaul led to a resurgence and acceleration of states signing on to the Convention of States, a constitutional movement for a return to federalism and state self-governance. Commenting that the movement reached the ‘halfway mark’ this week, with Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Nebraska signing on to become part of 17 states out of 34 needed to trigger the convention. This idea was birthed from Meckler being a part of the Tea Party movement in 2010, saying he saw two big problems: one being “structure”, resulting from years of “giving the federal government more and more power”, and the second, American’s losing their traditional “idea of self-governance” which is unique to the American system. Meckler solution to “fix that structure is what we call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution, get the states together, and the states proposed amendments to limit the power of the federal government”.