Article V Convention of States

1. Article V Convention of States Name Squadron

2. Across 2. The people who support the Convention of States to curtail the federal government's power believe that the government is exceeding the __________ powers spelled out in the Constitution. 6. The national debt is currently 17 ________ dollars. 7. The Founding Father delegate to the Constitutional Convention who proposed the addition of a Convention of States to Article V. 8. Totaling up deficits shows you this. 11. Even though the public greatly disapproves of Congress' performance, incumbents keep getting ________ at a rate no less than 85 percent for the past 50 years. Down 1. Apart from federal overspending, the people who want to convene a Convention of States want to propose amendments that fix the _________ crisis (i.e., federal involvement is goat herding, school vegetables, magicians' rabbits, etc.) 3. The difference between how much the government takes in and how much it spends in any given year. 4. This governmental body is the only part of the federal government that is allowed to propose amendments to the Constitution. 5. The purpose of an Article V Convention of States is to propose ________ to the Constitution. 6. The number of states that are currently needed to meet the three-fourths mandate in order to call a convention. 9. The current grassroots effort to call a convention, as being pursued by Citizens for Self Governance, seeks to limit the federal government's _______. 10. This state became the first to pass the required resolution through is legislature earlier this year. (Since then, Florida and Alaska have done the same.) 12. The proportion of States that must pass a resolution in order for a Convention of States to be called.