[LS]

I now what AN. Amendment involves, “with or without Mike Allen “and this is no amendment and you damn well know that. But, hey, go right ahead. Six weeks after something like this starts you’ll all be standing around wondering how Thad libs got control of it.

[Publius]

I would have expected one of America's great historians to do some basic research, like reading those two documents to which I linked. Those documents show the different visions of the purview of an Amendments Convention, one from the states (ALEC) and one from the ruling class (ABA). Instead, you take a hysterical tone. I expected better.

Considering that Congress and an Amendments Convention possess the exact same proposal powers, today Congress could propose amendments that would fulfill your worst fears. Every new Congress, Rep. Jose Serrano of the South Bronx introduces an amendment that would repeal the 2nd Amendment. It never gets out of committee. There is neither desire nor critical mass in Congress to propose the kind of amendments you fear.

Why do you believe that an Amendments Convention would propose them?

How do you believe that a convention, whose delegates would be chosen by the states, would propose the kind of amendments you fear?

How would the Left take control of a convention? Would the president order the army into the convention hall, train rifles on the delegates and force them to propose the kind of amendments you fear at gunpoint? He could do that to Congress today if he so chose and if the military would back him up.

Rather than work yourself into a state of high dudgeon, I'd like you to do a historian's job. Research it.