[precisionshootist]

"Former Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote in 1988 that “there is no way to effectively limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey. After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don’t like its agenda.” Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia echoed this sentiment in 2014. “I certainly would not want a constitutional convention,” said Scalia. “Whoa! Who knows what would come out of it?”"

I find these justices comments very disturbing as there is no possible way someone like Scalia or Burger could be ignorant of the process. What are they afraid of?

I will stand by my statement, there are no truly conservative judges. Why would Scalia make such an ignorant and misleading statement? There is NOTHING to fear about a Constitutional Convention for the very fact that all that can be done in convention is to propose things that then must be voted on by each state and passed by three fourths of said states. That is a bar high enough that there is simply no possible way anything radical could pass unless the huge majority of the people in every state supported and voted in support of it. If that were the case then by definition it's not radical. Again there is NOTHING to fear from a convention unless maybe you are a government elite who may secretly be afraid of losing his or hers position of power. Scalia knows this so again why would he make this statement? Maybe the answer is he is conservative as long as he does not lose any power.

[beancounter13]

I suggest you read the Articles of Confederation and then the history of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

What started out as a simple desire to make some small changes turned into an entirely new Federal System with a new form of government and absolutely no respect for the constitution then in effect.

Anything can happen when you put a bunch of people in a room when each of them believes that they have the power of the people and no underlying limits on their power.

Yes, it worked out well then, but past performance is no guarantee of future success.