The Convention of States reiterated that the Federal government’s primary job was to protect America from foreign adversaries and represent the various States to foreign powers. They abolished most Federal agencies, and specifically declared those that remained subordinate to State and local agencies when acting in their territory. And in one of the more interesting changes, they altered the Constitution to allow inter-State compacts. This legalized the effective alliances of States that had banded together to survive the Second Great Depression when the Federal government collapsed. The States were not willing to give up their newfound power and wanted to make certain that the Federal government would never get too big for its britches again.
Another way that the Convention of States changed the nature of America is in the way they handled political prisoners. They passed a blanket amnesty to every single political prisoner of the old regime. Then they ordered the political prisons torn down since they were too inhumane for anyone but political prisoners. Criminals had rights like due process, livable conditions, medical care, and access to lawyers after all. And when their investigators prosecuted the ruling class politicians and bureaucrats, most served time in various Club Feds. Only the worst served hard time in high security prisons, and many of those were to protect them after all of their convictions hit the public record. Criminals have standards you know.
The Convention of States changed the very nature of the America that walked out of it. Some changes were minor. Returning the election of Senators to the State legislatures or the new Parliamentary style elections for the House. Other changes were far more fundamental. Politicians and bureaucrats had looted the old America to the ground and Americans demanded accountability. So the Convention initiated numerous investigations to find and bring justice to the most guilty. Corruption had become so systemic in the final decades That America literally couldn’t afford to put all of the old ruling class in prison, but America had to warn future political generations that there were limits. That even politicians could be held accountable for their actions.
The United States of America came out of the Second Great Depression a far different nation than it had been before. Decades of political warfare between Democrats and Republicans over who got to loot the treasury, with the same people winning and losing more often than not, had bankrupted the nation, and the 49 States who called the Convention of States were simply done with it all. One step they took during the Convention was to outlaw any national political party named after a form of government, and then they took specific measures to shut those two down hard. That didn’t end the age old disagreements of course. Politics continued under different names, but America was a different nation by then. Even politics had to bow to that change.
Title 9 has been the foremost authority on sex-based discrimination in education since Congress passed it over 50 years ago. It mandated no sex-based discrimination at all in any educational institution receiving federal funding, which resulted in the massive expansion of women’s sports and numerous other activities that had had been largely denied to them before. Last Friday, the Biden administration announced that they were going to redefine the sex-based discrimination Congress passed into the new terminology of gender-identity based discrimination. Do you want more men identifying as women in women’s locker rooms? Bathrooms? Sports? We have seen this thinking lead to that already. This will bring more of it.