>> I’m no Constitutional scholar .. I rely on others .. and I’ve read that a Constitutional convention at this point in our history would open up a Pandora’s box of worms, and that the Constitution should be left alone .. as it stands .. and enforced. <<
Agreed, The last time we let well meaning progressives fiddle with the Constitution we ended up having to reverse it some years later. Prohibition is a good example of progressive meddling.
Considering the way most of them vote, one could make a case that the Amendment providing the vote for women was a mistake also. (Ducking and running for fallout shelter)
Two other good examples are these:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census of enumeration.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the Senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, that the legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Both were freedom destroyers.