A Declaration for a New Blue State Constitutional Convention
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for the People of a free and diverse Republic to reclaim the promise of their democracy, to dissolve the chains of corruption which have perverted their government, and to re-found it upon principles of liberty, equality, and justice, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to this undertaking.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all persons are created equal; that they are endowed by their humanity with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are life, liberty, privacy, bodily autonomy, dignity, and the pursuit of happiness; that governments are instituted among the People to secure these rights, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as shall most likely effect their safety, their flourishing, and their freedom.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that humanity is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of the People of the United States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to call for a new Constitutional Convention. The history of the present system is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of two systems of justice: one for the rich and powerful, another for the poor and vulnerable. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
A Bill of Particulars
- That Donald J. Trump, though convicted of felonies and adjudged liable for sexual assault, has been shielded from the full reach of justice, exposing the two-tiered system of law that excuses the rich while punishing the poor.
- That Trump and the leaders of the Republican Party have fanned the flames of white supremacy, continuing the unfinished Civil War through the color of law and politics, sowing division to preserve their own power.
- That Trump has declared false national emergencies to seize funds unlawfully, and imposed tariffs in violation of international trade agreements, undermining America’s economic security and breaking faith with international law.
- That the Supreme Court, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, has stripped women of reproductive freedom and extinguished the constitutional right of privacy.
- That in Trump v. United States, it has conjured executive immunity foreign to the Constitution, crowning the President with powers of a monarch.
- That in Anderson v. Griswold, it denied to states their Tenth Amendment powers to enforce constitutional provisions against insurrectionists.
- That in Shelby County v. Holder, it struck down the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act, unleashing widespread voter suppression, and in Rucho v. Common Cause, it declared partisan gerrymandering beyond the reach of federal courts, entrenching minority rule.
- That in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, it legalized bribery by equating money with speech; that in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, it first bestowed corporate personhood; and that in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, it extended to corporations the rights of conscience meant for human beings — transforming corporations from chartered instruments of public benefit into immortal engines of private profit, severed from the communities they exploit.
- That the Court, in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, has diminished the sovereignty of Native Nations, in violation of solemn treaties and the Constitution itself.
- That the Court has sanctioned racial profiling by immigration authorities and allowed deportations without hearings, consigning persons to dungeons abroad such as El Salvador’s CECOT prison, or expelling them to lands where they have no kin, in violation of the Refugee Convention and the principle of non-refoulement.
- That the United States has maintained Guantánamo Bay and other sites of indefinite detention, contrary to the Convention Against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
- That the Senate, under Mitch McConnell, denied hearings to Merrick Garland and other nominees, corrupting the appointment of judges and subordinating the judiciary to faction.
- That the Federalist Society, in conspiracy with corporate patrons, has captured the courts, vetting nominees for ideological obedience and dismantling constitutional balance.
- That Congress, broken beyond repair, has repeatedly failed to perform its most basic duty of governance — passing budgets — preferring paralysis and chaos to stewardship of the Republic.
- That billionaires and corporate magnates, through Fox, Sinclair, and other media, have converted the free press into an instrument of propaganda, deceiving the People and narrowing the bounds of democratic debate.
- That white supremacy and Christian nationalism have been enthroned as policy, corrupting law and governance, denying equal protection, and betraying the true diversity of the Republic.
- That the United States has obstructed global climate agreements and failed to meet international obligations, imperiling the future of humanity.
- That the Equal Rights Amendment, duly passed and ratified, has been denied effect, leaving women’s equality unrecognized in law.
- That the United States has failed to grow in accordance with the progress of other industrialized nations, denying its citizens rights to universal health care, higher education, robust social security, and dignity at life’s end.
- That the United States has repeatedly meddled in the internal affairs of other nations — including Iran, Nicaragua and the Sandinistas, Central America and Hawaii, the business interests of multinational corporations such as United Fruit/Dole — and has waged wars of choice, including Iraq, squandering trillions of public dollars and imperiling countless lives.
We, therefore, the citizens of the United States, appealing to the judgment of history and to the conscience of our fellow Americans, do solemnly publish and declare: that the present constitutional order has forfeited its legitimacy; that the governors of the several states must call forth a new Constitutional Convention; and that in this Convention shall be enshrined the principles of equality, diversity, equity, reproductive freedom, privacy, justice, sustainability, and the protection of human dignity — secured against the corruption of wealth, creed, or faction.
In support of this Declaration, with firm reliance upon the justice of our cause, we pledge ourselves to the labor of reform, and to the preservation of democracy for our posterity.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
22 year fed and attorney.
Happy to take edits or additions.
Originally Posted By u/CoachoftheYear2025 At 2025-09-09 03:33:24 PM | Source
