[Billthedrill]

I think, to stall for time while the heavies show up, that the major concern, even of people who do know something about it, is that an Article V Convention could take on a dimension that incorporates features far outside its designed scope. Whether that is actually possible is an item of considerable controversy.

We have to recall what happened to the convention that was supposed only to amend the Articles of Confederation. Mason fled in disgust when he realized what those lunatics Hamilton and Madison actually had in mind... ;-)

[Jacquerie]

Considering you co-posted The Federalist, your comment is especially troubling. I know you didn't get the bum info from the Birchers, but the same wrong history is printed there.

Quick and tight timeline:

1781 & 1783. Congress asks for limited commerce and taxing powers. RI refuses.

March 1785: Mount Vernon Conference. Legislators from MD and VA discuss Potomac navigation and commerce issues. Conferees suggest wider state meeting in Annapolis.

September 1786: Annapolis Convention. Few states attend. Nothing of substance, other than a call to meet in Philly in May of 1787.

February 1787: Congress calls for a convention that was going to happen anyway.

These meetings/conventions were extra-congressional. Congress had no authority to call a convention, nor commission its members, nor define its purpose. Congress was an impotent advisory group, which was the reason for the meetings/conventions of 1785 -1787.

[Jacquerie]

Mason fled in disgust when he realized what those lunatics Hamilton and Madison actually had in mind...

Gosh, that is a horrid and unsubstantiated cheap shot!

Mason attended the entire convention.

Tell me of Madison's and Hamilton's lunacy.

[SgtBob]

Not quite sure what brew you have, but I’d like a heads up, as a purveyor of fine brews.

[huckfillary]

Lunatics? I don’t think so. Read the Federalist Papers.