Join the Convention of States Project for an Article V Debate Moderated by Ken Cuccinelli

MANASSAS, Va., Aug. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Renowned constitutional attorney Michael Farris will debate 12-term Virginia Delegate Robert G. ("Bob") Marshall (R-Prince William) about the effort to invoke Article V of the U.S. Constitution to rein in the federal government by proposing constitutional amendments.  The Manassas Tea Party is hosting this free, public debate at Northern Virginia Community College's Colgan Theater, 6901 Sudley Road, in Manassas from 7-9 p.m. ET on Thursday, August 28.

"The Convention of States Project offers the only effective way to restore our federal system," said Farris.  "The Article V convention mechanism is the procedure the Founding Fathers gave us to reassert the powers reserved to the states and the people under the Tenth Amendment."

An Article V application has been passed by Alaska, Florida and Georgia this past spring, but it failed on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates earlier this year.  Delegate Marshall has been Virginia's most outspoken legislative opponent of the Virginia effort. The debate will give Virginians a serious discussion on Article V and why the Framers unanimously adopted it into the Constitution. America's founders gave citizens to restrain the federal government beast when it inevitably became uncontrollable.  In fact, it is our moral obligation to use it.

Michael Farris Background

Michael Farris, the head of the Convention of States Project, is available to discuss Article V's ability to limit power of federal government.

In addition to serving as Chancellor of Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, he is chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. During his career as a constitutional appellate litigator, he has served as lead counsel in the United States Supreme Court, eight federal circuit courts and the appellate courts of thirteen states. Farris has been a leader on Capitol Hill for over thirty years and is widely respected for his leadership in the defense of homeschooling, religious freedom and the preservation of American sovereignty.

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