[BlueNgold]

Annual?
That would be a bad idea IMO.

Perhaps once a generation. Perhaps once a century.

[theBuckwheat]

The first restraint upon government is by a limited budget, and thus by limited funds. But when government gives itself power to create near-infinite money out of thin air, then it has near-infinite funding of near-infinite bureaucracy by which to create and enforce near-infinite regulations each having the weight of law.

Government also buys favor and support by funding enough “benefits” that almost half of all households in the US receive some form of direct government money. It can seize an unlimited amount of private land and pay ‘fair market value’ as Susette Kelo of New London, Connecticut found out.

The first order of business of an Article V convention of the States must be to restrain government’s ability to create more money than the citizens want to send in the form of taxes upon themselves. We must stop near-infinite money so we stop near-infinite government.

[Political Junkie Too]

I will be curious to see what the "single subject" crowd thinks of a never-adjourning convention for proposing amendments. They are diametrically opposed concepts.

Personally, I don't know where the single-subject concept comes from. If 34 states each have a unique idea for an amendment that they want to share, they should be allowed to call for a proposing convention to let the other 33 hear the idea.

-PJ

[flamberge]

An Article V Convention would be immediately dominated by Leftists. If they did not win a plurality outright, they would influence the delegates by organizing riots and personal threats.

Anyone up for repeal of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments? How about a "compromise" where you can keep any one of them except that awful 2nd one.

Proponents of an Article V Convention are far too confident that it would result in a conservative outcome.

[TomGuy]

Even if they do agree on a couple of amendments, it will take 10 years for them to get through all the states. By then, they would likely be irrelevant or insufficient. The ‘government’ that ignores current laws will likely ignore future laws they don’t like.

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Before shutting the doors at such a convention, consider what is going on behind the scenes with the current GOPestablishment.

Similar chicanery and corruption and wheeling & dealing will take place.

Libs/Dems/GOPestablishment/Soros-types/Lobbyists will not sit quietly by and let things happen that go against their interests.