Where does this silly notion come from?
If we cannot even elect a Congress that will do it's duty, what insanity makes people think they will elect delegates to a CC that will be any different from the current crop of thugs and crooks?
The same people who get elected NOW, and have created this mess, are the same people who would run a CC!
All a CC does is allow the current political class to rewrite those parts of the US Constitution they find inconvenient, like the 1st, 2nd and 10th Admentdments, to say something more to their likening.
NO, a CC is pure insanity. The solution is NOT to flailing around looking for some simplistic silly notions of some sort of quick fix.
The solution is for Conservatives to get off their asses and do the hard, nasty dirty work of winning elections.
How about an Amendment that disallows a federal agency from initiating its own regulations without specific direction from Congress.
You are mistaken, sir. Delegates to a constitutional convention are appointed by the individual States, not popularly elected, and officials and officers of the national government are prohibited from being seated as delegates.
Thus, for what you are implying, the legislatures of 38 States would have to be corrupted by a particular force or organization, that would inspire them to vote for a draft constitution of a corrupt nature. This is an almost impossible conjecture.
Instead, the purpose of a constitutional convention is *not* the prerogatives of the people, or of particular groups. It is those of the individual States themselves.
And the proof of this is that right now, groups of the individual States are already banding together on several parallel issues, each of which however is based on one principle: that the national government has overextended its reach into the power of the States.
Some of these States are asserting that guns and ammunition produced and used exclusively within their State are beyond federal prerogative. Another group says that the federal prohibition against the use of marijuana exceeds the national mandate. There are several more, similar to these ideas.
Likewise at least 17 States are joining in the lawsuit against Obamacare.
The most popular effort are the resolutions demanding adherence to the 10th Amendment. It is a first gesture, which in its current form will not convene a convention, but it is still a polite warning to the national government to cease and desist.
And it so far is being ignored at by the national government.
So in the final analysis, your fears are unjustified. The convention will not, and has strong safeguards against, being radicalized or co-opted for villainous purpose.
While I would certainly encourage a conservative recapturing of Washington, the only demand I would place on them is to ask if they would support a constitutional convention of the individual States, or if they would shun it, and fruitlessly try to once again regain control of this unwieldy behemoth, filled with rogue agencies and unresponsive bureaucrats.
As things stand, or national laws are being written by corporate lobbyists and Hill Rats, and are passed into law without review by our elected officials in either party. Their feints and parries against each other accomplish little or nothing, and the perpetually employed bureaucratic Mandarins care little or nothing for other than maintaining and enlarging their personal fiefdoms.
The bottom line is that it is not up to the people to afford change that we cannot make. Instead this is the prerogative of the individual States. So at best we should encourage them to aspire to this end, that our nation be restored to full function, not just have another coat of drab paint added to conceal its corruption and erosive decay.