What would prevent a Convention of States from deciding that they need a new constitution? Some piece of paper that says this is their only agenda?
Why would the delegates think they have to have ratification from 38 states?
Who will stop them from implementing a Parlimentary Government if they chose to create one?
You?
Me?
We would be run under the tank treads so fast we wouldn’t know what to do.
“What would prevent a Convention of States from deciding that they need a new constitution? “
The Constitution. Right there in black and white. This is how COS works:
“Article V
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.”
Do you see anywhere anything about a new constitution? Of course not. Anything coming out of a COS except proposed amendments will be ignored, of course.
Seriously, yours is a a ridiculous argument. You are not making sense.