"While the Constitutional Convention of 1787 may have exceeded the purpose of its call in framing the Constitution, it does not follow that a convention convened under Article V and subject to the Constitution can lawfully assume such authority. In the first place, the Convention of 1787 took place during an extraordinary period and at a time when the states were independent and there was no effective national government. Thomas Cooley described it as “a revolutionary proceeding, and could be justified only by the circumstances which had brought the Union to the brink of dissolution.” Moreover, the Convention of 1787 did not ignore Congress. The draft Constitution was submitted to Congress, consented to by Congress, and transmitted by Congress to the states for ratification by popularly-elected conventions." I submit that we are again at an extraordinary period, and a time when the states are very near total domination rather than independent and there is no effective national government. The unconstitutionally overreaching national government is bankrupt and is self-destructing before our very eyes.
This also applies to the current situation: “a revolutionary proceeding, and could be justified only by the circumstances which had brought the Union to the brink of dissolution.”
We are indeed nearing the brink of dissolution of the Union. The nation was last so divided just prior to the proceedings of 1861.