Hope this thing can get off the ground and led with clarity in the proposed amendments - as SCOTUS-proof as possible.
Of course they will.
This.
fear for their personal safety
So since the states don’t have to ratify a proposed amendment, let a ConCon run away all it wants to. Note that if the states ignore a proposed amendment then the ConCon was arguably a waste of time.
Also, since the biggest flaw in the original Constitution was to allow the Senate to confirm justices (2.2.2) imo, that clause needs to be repealed, the power to confirm justices given uniquely to state lawmakers.
And speaking of the Senate, a ConCon also needs to propose an amendment to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments to the Constitution.
An amendment to repeal the 17th Amendment needs to include provisions to allow state lawakers to recall senators, and to allow citizens to recall representatives.
The states also need to amend the Constitution to give state lawmakers the same power to impeach and remove corrupt federal officials from office, including members of Congress, executives and justices, that Congress has.
The Constitution also needs an amendment to require all candidates for any federal office, elected or non-elected, especially candidates who attended an Ivy League law school, to pass a Free Republic constitutional proficiency test, the test emphasizing Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes. /semi-sarc
In fact, the following Supreme Court case excerpt needs to be amended to the Constitution.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Speaking of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes, the Constitution also needs to be amended to require candidates for federal office, elected and non-elected, to qualify for federal office in the following way. Federal candidates first need to serve as state lawmakers so that they can learn about 10th Amendment-protected state powers and state budgets in conjunction with Congress’s Section 8-limited powers including Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes.
Do you have any information on or ideas about the delegate selection process for an Article V.
Do the states have to pass laws to govern that process? Do any states have such laws?
Would we have state elections, party caucuses, both?
Absolutely doomed to failure. Half the country and half the states want more federal power. Half the country and half the states want the federal government to have less power.
The original “Constitutional Convention” was only supposed to make modifications to the “Articles of Confederation” (our original constitution).
Instead, they threw everything out and started over from scratch.
What is to prevent the next “Constitutional Convention” from doing the same thing the last one did?
Nothing.