October 26, 2025

To: State leaders (legislative, financial & political) and the state’s legislature and to the people of these several States.
From: Article V Steering Committee and the Article V Taskforce
Author: Mike Kapic, Article V Taskforce

America has been hijacked by her political parties and special interests, driven to an abyss, leaving her Founding principles, Judeo-Christian values, and Freedom Charters trampled on the side of the road.

Besides her social, religious, Constitutional, economic, and civic obligations being quashed over many decades, she is on the same destructive path on which she found herself during the mid-1780s: close to bankruptcy and collapse. Then, the young country, learning to walk, nearly took a great fall that could have killed the American youngster if the States had not stepped in to save her.

Today, similar threats are closing in because of our runaway debt, now over $38 Trillion. Congress has continued to ignore its out-of-control spending, admitting it has no will to stop it.

Nobody knows for sure, but financial experts are now suggesting that the bond market could collapse within the next three to six years. This horizon has shrunk drastically in the last five years. Without the bond market, Congress cannot borrow to keep America functioning.

The 1780s rescue came from the States in the reform of the government then under the Articles of Confederation. The States reformed the government and codified the 170-year-old convention process in Article V and its amending authority as a reflection of how they had just created it.

Congress has abused the trust of the States and People by ignoring the States’ Constitutional right and equal authority to propose a solution to the problem within Article V.

On February 9,1979, Nevada became the 34th State to submit the final application allowing for Congress to Call or announce that the threshold had been met for proposing a balanced budget amendment (BBA) in a convention of states. But Congress ignored us — again.

On or about September 14, 2025, a packet containing 39 applications for a convention of states were delivered to Congress (office of Rep. Jody Arrington) and the signed receipt is shown here.

Congress has therefore acknowledged receipt of the required applications to trigger a convention of states for proposing a fiscal responsibility amendment. A pdf of the actual applications is available for download at this link.

What might a BBA amendment look like? For a suggested example for writing one with dos and don’ts, see Prof. Rob Natelson’s paper here. How would a convention handle itself? See clips from the Phoenix 2017 Convention here.

The States must stand, united in their recognition of the 1979 act and the refusal in subsequent years by Congress to announce it. The States must recognize that, quietly and without political notoriety, that Congress has in its possession thirty-nine valid applications for an Article V convention of states.

Which State will host and send the first circular letter of invitation?