Mark Meckler, co-founder and past National Coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, founded Citizens for Self-Governance (CSG) in 2012. CSG’s Convention of States Project is currently organizing a national grassroots effort calling for an Article V amending convention. This project will empower citizens to restrict the jurisdiction of the federal government, returning the citizens to their proper role as sovereigns, through the use of Article V of the Constitution. Mark appears regularly on a wide variety of television and radio outlets, is the author of Tea Party Patriots, The Second American Revolution, blogs at SelfGovern.com and is a regular contributor at the American Spectator online.