Quick question Billybob, but I've got some things to attend to and I'll have to check back later in the day: Could the States restrict a CC to only addressing say, repeal of the 17th? OR, could it potentially turn into a re-write of the entire Constitution?
The short answer to the question you posed, which I dealt with in twenty years of testimony before state legislative committees, is yes. There are six decisions of state supreme court decisions that a state convention CAN be limited to a single subject. There are no state decisions saying that a state convention can NOT be limited.
There is no decision addressing the same subject at the federal level. However, the logic at the federal level is the same as at the state level. The power to convene a Convention belongs to a specified authority. At the federal level, that is the state legislatures. And since 1793, no state has EVER called for a general convention. All calls have been for limited conventions on specified subjects.
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