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I think most of the states are currently "red" states (maybe someone will post "the map?"). Now might be the least risky time to attempt something like this.

While I can appreciate that sentiment, I don't believe we have sufficient population of honorable leaders who I would trust to have the power to completely rewrite the Constitution. Even my own fair Commonwealth is sorely lacking in this regard.

Remember: Once a Constitutional Convention is called, there are no limits on what can be proposed, or on what can be altered.

Do you trust the Republican party of today to handle the Constitution in this manner?

I know I don't. And the problem exists from THE TOP DOWN!

Your assumption that there are "no limits" on a Constitutional Convention is false and contrary to the states' powers under Article V of the Constitution. If the states CHOOSE to call for a general Convention with no limits, then that is what they will get. But not since 1789 has even a single state called for such a Convention.

To the contrary, the hundreds of state calls passed since then have ALL been restricted to specific subjects, and never have 2/3rds of the states agreed on a single subject. If your assumption were correct, such a general Convention would have occurred back in the 1980s, when there were 40 states on record as calling for a Convention -- but on a wide variety of non-matching subjects.

You're buying a tin-foil, fund-raising argument. The power on this issue belongs to the states. And if they want to use just part of their power, to call for a Convention limited to immigration, for instance, they have every right to do exactly that.

Congressman Billybob

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