FFSF is leading the effort to support litigation by the states to enforce their Article V power to propose a fiscal responsibility amendment to the Constitution
American Promise just chalked up one of this year’s milestone Article V wins. Republican Congressman Tom Barrett (MI-7) announced his sponsorship of H.J Res.191, which would restore to Congress and to the states power to set reasonable rules around money in politics, protect free speech rights, and legally distinguish between actual humans and artificial entities like SuperPACs and AIs. https://t.co/qwdUwpYRSn
Consensus emerges among opinion leaders. Amendment needed to address the national debt crisis and the states must lead to get it ratified. New poll: overwhelming public support to address political corruption.
AEI Debt Crisis Forum Highlights https://t.co/T4uUDUYxlf
June 3 AEI Event Mainstreams State Amending Power. Thank you, American Enterprise Institute. Now, persuade our wise fiscal heads to advocate that states litigate to enforce their power to propose the needed fiscal responsibility amendment. https://t.co/IRtsBRSfov.
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It is clear that constitutional strictures are needed to eliminate the federal government’s addiction to fiscal irresponsibility. As history has shown, nothing short of a constitutional constraint will firmly bind the hands of a Congress that has for half a century demonstrated that it cannot bind its own. https://t.co/16EMb48LrO
Out-of-state billionaire funded SuperPAC wants to defeat America-first Congressman Thomas Massie in Kentucky's $30 million GOP primary, this year's most expensive House primary. Needed solution? A constitutional amendment restoring power to the states, as they each may see fit, to set campaign money limits. Learn more at American Promise. https://t.co/zjj6X2hT6e
Debt Default: 3 Minutes To Midnight. The solution awaits state litigation to enforce existing state power to propose the needed fiscal limits amendment. https://t.co/K9O15aPtEM
Johns Hopkins economist @steve_hanke and former Comptroller General Dave Walker in Fortune today: America’s national debt is heading to 175% of GDP. Here’s why no president—including Trump—has the will to stop it.
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Congress is violating the Constitution—and a $39 trillion debt is the proof. States must step in with litigation to enforce their Article V power to propose and ratify a fiscal limits amendment. https://t.co/R279bVI010
3 states pass Article V resolutions in Q1 2026, a multi-year record and a turning of the tide between pro- and anti-Article V forces.
Q1 Article V Applications Surge https://t.co/jtNvUeq4TD
@RepLuna @ RepLuna. Listen to @RepArrington floor statement: states have already submitted a sufficient number of Article V applications compelling Congress as of 1979 and NOW to call a convention for proposing a fiscal responsibility amendment. https://t.co/jsAHPPlcFy
House Budget Committee Chair confirms today on the House floor that the states have already submitted the required number of applications obligating Congress to call an Article V Convention so that the states can propose the needed fiscal responsibility amendment. https://t.co/mY56DhTaOd