Scope and scale are an issue for the attendees. The purpose of the Convention of States is for the people to regain and retain their government; to snatch it back from those who have subverted this grand experiment.
Passage of a PROPOSED Amendment at CoS does NOT guarantee it’s adoption by the nation at large as all that issue from CoS must still be ratified, in the manner prescribed in the Constitution.
There are a number of valid concerns, IMO, that could be addressed in CoS:
1. Balanced Budget amendment, with NARROW allowance for deficits.
2. Definition of NATURAL BORN CITIZEN spelled out; progeny of one or two US Citizens, birth anywhere in the world; address ‘anchor baby’ issue.
3. Term Limits for House (4 terms), and Senate (2 terms).
4. Define Presidential Electoral Votes to be cast by Congressional District, for the popular vote winner in the district, and one for each Senator, cast by the popular vote in the State.
And likely a couple more, perhaps.
A COS needs to remove spending authority from Congress and return it to the taxpayer. As presently structured, congress is institutionally incapable of fiscal restraint.
I do not know how to achieve this, but this spending of trillions of dollars we do not have will cost the nation dearly in the future and has to be reversed. Presently, the congress has little or no incentive for fiscal responsibility, and on the contrary, grow their power via spending money and taking us further into debt, be those money sources be tax revenue, borrowing, or printing, the latter two of which are merely taxes by other names.
1. Balanced Budget amendment, with NARROW allowance for deficits. And a spending limitation as well. A budget of $5-6 trillion that is balanced could be just as harmful as our current budgets. It's a spending problem, not a tax problem.
2. Definition of NATURAL BORN CITIZEN spelled out; progeny of one or two US Citizens, birth anywhere in the world; address ‘anchor baby’ issue.
We definitely need to address "birthright citizenship."
3. Term Limits for House (4 terms), and Senate (2 terms).
Term limits are an idea whose time has come. However, the Swampsters will most likely just play shuffle the offices.
Even under your proposal, we're allowing members 20 years on Capitol Hill.
4. Define Presidential Electoral Votes to be cast by Congressional District, for the popular vote winner in the district, and one for each Senator, cast by the popular vote in the State.
As a Tenth Amendment type, I'm not so sure I want to tell the states how they must choose their electors.
1. Balanced Budget amendment, with NARROW allowance for deficits.
And a spending limitation as well. A budget of $5-6 trillion that is balanced could be just as harmful as our current budgets. It's a spending problem, not a tax problem.
2. Definition of NATURAL BORN CITIZEN spelled out; progeny of one or two US Citizens, birth anywhere in the world; address ‘anchor baby’ issue.
We definitely need to address "birthright citizenship."
3. Term Limits for House (4 terms), and Senate (2 terms).
Term limits are an idea whose time has come. However, the Swampsters will most likely just play shuffle the offices.
Even under your proposal, we're allowing members 20 years on Capitol Hill.
4. Define Presidential Electoral Votes to be cast by Congressional District, for the popular vote winner in the district, and one for each Senator, cast by the popular vote in the State.
As a Tenth Amendment type, I'm not so sure I want to tell the states how they must choose their electors.