![]() ![]() A powerful and growing faction of the movement, the Convention of States (COS) project, has gone further. So far, legislatures in twenty-eight states have called for fiscal-integrity amendments-mandating a balanced budget. Among currently elected politicians, its supporters include South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham and Florida governor Ron DeSantis. The movement is supported by a wide range of leaders and activists, from a former Comptroller General, David Walker, to a former governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker. For over two decades, conservatives in the United States have been trying to trigger a provision of the Constitution that has never been used-a clause that gives states the power to demand that Congress “call a Convention for proposing amendments” to the Constitution itself. ![]()
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