The process may be different but the “pickings” for delegates and to chair a convention today could not come close to the men who forged the constitution.....
We are talking about repealing the 16th and 17th and deliberating any other amendments that would stop socialism such as an amendment to prohibit federally unfunded mandates.
As far as the caliber of the people at a convention, I would trust Joe the Plumber and other similar red-blooded Salt of the Earth conservative Americans much more than the morons under the political leadership of the worst president in American history Woodrow Wilson who in 1913 brought us the 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve Act.
I would trust conservative grassroots Americans more than any democrat socialist in Congress today.
I would ask them to propose a repeal of the 16th immediately, to repeal the 17th and to consider other amendments that would cause the federal government to decentralize and remain that way under the new amendment.
Upon reform of the Federal Reserve Act I would ask for an amendment that would prohibit the United States from delegating its constitutional obligation to make, to control the amount of its currency, to regulate and make public the operations of concessions that operate the money supply of the United States tender.
All of these types of things are for the purpose of gaining an upper hand on those that would subvert the Constitution. It doesn't take a Madison, a Jefferson or others to amend the Constitution so that it works to preserve our freedoms.
The process may be different but the “pickings” for delegates and to chair a convention today could not come close to the men who forged the constitution.....
It's funny how those who want a Constitutional Convention say it's not about getting another Constitution -- but -- from the people I see who would be involved in that sort of thing (just look around you... LOL ...) -- there's a lot of them who would rewrite the Constitution in a New York minute....
And with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Warren Burger, saying that there would be no limitation that could stop delegates from doing that -- well... you get the picture...
I choose not to go the "nightmare route" with a Constitutional Convention -- and simply do the Constitutional Amendments the same way we've done them since right after the country was formed (with #11 through #27) -- a process that would work and has been shown to work.