To: P-Marlowe
Once you start the Convention, nobody can guarantee what will come out of it. That's why it would be an Article V convention; that is one for proposing amendments… and those amendments would still have to be approved by 3/4 of the States's legislatures.
8 posted on
07/18/2014 1:05:42 PM PDT by
OneWingedShark
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To: OneWingedShark
That's why it would be an Article V convention; that is one for proposing amendments… and those amendments would still have to be approved by 3/4 of the States's legislatures. And do you honestly think that anything sensible will be proposed? If we had 3/4ths of the states, we could elect sensible people to congress and solve the problem directly.
It is insane to think that a constituency which gave us Democrat control of the Senate and the Presidency could possibly give us a convention which would do anything beneficial.
36 posted on
07/18/2014 2:47:30 PM PDT by
DiogenesLamp
(Partus Sequitur Patrem)
To: OneWingedShark
Doesn't work like that. See the original US Constitution. When these groups get together, the first thing they do is vote to ditch the rules. When the US Articles convention met, they didn't even have a means to ratify the resulting document.
It is just silly to think that ANY existing rules---even to "be approved by 3/4 of the legislatures"---would BIND any Concon of this type.
56 posted on
07/18/2014 4:07:03 PM PDT by
LS
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