Spot on Brass Lamp! But you won't get much support for your antiquated ideas around here. Sadly, I'm finding that even though people say they hold the Constitution dear in word, when it comes to deed, in many ways, there are as many living constitutionalists who call themselves conservative as there are progressives who are living constitutionalists.
I've been discussing an Article V convention and pretty much no one supports it even though it IS a Constitutional solution. And Federalist 45 and Madison's notion of “dual sovereignty”, who needs it! And the 9th and 10th Amendment, why how dare you assert they are anything more that “truisms!”
I am no longer afraid of the prospect of a convention. The interpreted Constitution has already been mutated so far beyond the literal text of the document that the ratification of even the most concessionary language would represent a step back from the sort of imaginary constitutional law we now have. There really is a good reason why the Left avoids the bright light of ‘open air’ procedures and prefers to operate furtively in the legal twilight.