The bottom line is, once such a body meets, NO ONE can control it and it comes down to might makes right. And just as the Federalists controlled the propaganda organs of the 1700s, the group who controls the media will win the battle.
The states will not send schlubs off the street, nor even representatives to the convention. They will send delegates. These agents of the states will have commissions that delineate exactly what they are authorized to do.
Here is the summary of Florida's bill.
Article V Constitutional Convention: Establishes qualifications of delegates & alternate delegates to Article V constitutional convention; provides for appointment of delegates by Legislature; authorizes Legislature to recall delegate & fill vacancy; authorizes presiding officers to call special legislative session to carry out certain provisions relating to appointments; requires delegates to sign oath; provides for instructions to delegates; establishes circumstances under which convention vote is declared void; provides circumstances under which delegate's appointment is forfeited; establishes circumstances under which application to call Article V convention ceases to be continuing application & is deemed to have no effect; provides penalties; establishes delegate advisory group.
Effective Date: July 1, 2014
Last Event: CS passed; YEAS 73, NAYS 42 on Friday, April 11, 2014 12:52 PM
So we just throw up our hands and bend over without the Vaseline? So since you are part of the solution, how about cluing the rest of us in on it/sarc.