Any new constitution would need to be ratified by the states before it could take effect.
When the majority of American people vote in a communist as our president, admit it, the fight is over and done with, all except for logging in the survivors. Come January 20, 2009, the Republic is a has been. Thereisn’t enough people that we consider patriots to win the fight in Congress anymore.
No, those rules to ratify were under the old Constitution. S'pose the new convention decides it's time to junk the whole document and install "O" as Supreme Monarch? The delegates were lawfully chosen under the old paradigm, this gives the New World Order total validation.
“Any new constitution would need to be ratified by the states before it could take effect.”
I’m good as long as the constitution allows states to secede from the union. I’d move in a minute if Texas or Mississippi seceded. I suspect a lot of productive people would.
Under the Articles of Confederation. All the states would have had to agree to amendments. The convention which met to "amend", and strengthen the Articles, ended up writing the Constitution, which only required 9 of the 13 states to ratify it for it to go into effect.
With DemonRats in power, anything could happen.
First to go would likely be the Second Amendment, especially now that the Supreme Court has finally ruled that it protects a right of individuals, independent of any membership in an organized militia.