The idea that we’d resort to an Art V to put the fed in its place would have been nonsense to them.
Here is where you lose credibility. Answer these two questions which must have a credible answer before the call for the Art V reaches critical mass:
1. where do you find people of the founder’s resolve, experience and foresight today?
2. how do you get those people selected to be delegates?
If you can’t answer these questions, then you’re grandstanding. I’ll give you an example of the difficulty in this. In TEXAS, one of the most conservative states in the nation, Spkr Joe Straus is probably going to have a majority stake in the delegates sent to the convention. I promise you, they’ll look more like Lindsey Graham or even Chucky Schumer than Ted Cruz.
An Art V convention is a Rube Goldberg method of doing what the states have the power to do now: bring the fedgov’s shenanigans to a halt.
Read Federalist 45/46.