At this point I see a constitutional convention as a necessity.
Since the start of the 20th Century, progressives incorporated the propaganda into the public schools that a constitutional convention is “Unthinkable. It would be controlled by radicals.” That is not just a lie, but a damned lie.
A constitutional convention would be very conservative, and indifferent to social issues as compared to reestablishing a proper balance of power between the federal government, the State governments, and the people.
It would amount to two things: First, to reduce the scale and scope of the federal government and the national debt by a tremendous amount. Second, to perform maintenance on the constitution that has been needed over its 200+ years of life.
The States are already moving in this direction, forming issue oriented “10th Amendment” blocs, that all point in the same direction.
But once the State legislatures are aware of the major changes that need to be made, they will have to debate among themselves, and between States, which changes they want. Unless 38 States are in agreement *first*, even calling a constitutional convention would be frivolous.
This means that when the delegates arrived at the convention, they would already have a draft in hand, read it out loud and vote to approve it, then return it to their States for approval. Once 38 States had voted to approve it, the constitutional convention would have the responsibility to relieve any federal official, officer, judge or employee who refused to carry out the changes to the government, or had been dismissed. Likewise they could vote to imprison anyone attempting to subvert the constitutional convention, without trial or appeal.
Make no mistake that this would be a deadly serious event, because every villain on the planet would want to influence, disrupt, conduct surveillance on, or undermine it. And many of them already work for the federal government.
Not with this pack of thieves and blackguards.