I don’t think the framers were dumb at all. They gave us the 10th Amendment. If that were enforced, we would have very few problems. What are you going to say with your Const. Convention: “We meant it the first time?” or “the Constitution means what it says, and nothing more?”
If you understand the full import of socialism into the United States, you will know that the 16th and 17th amendments empower socialism in the United States. If you study their history, you will understand how they were snuck in with a high level of deceit.
The 16th authorized a tax code that started out as a flat tax of 7% on the wealthiest 2% of Americans. From this derived most New Deal socialist programs such as Social Security. And again these programs crept in barely noticed. Social Security started as a total (employee and employer) 1% of gross earnings.
The 17th disconnected the States from Washington and ever since it was ratified there have been non-stop mandates from the federal government to the states.
The 10th may indeed be useful in stopping Obama’s commie-care. And that is good and should not require a Convention.
The point of a Convention is that we as conservatives have the power, a huge advantage in the number of states we control. We can roll back and demolish the foundation of every socialist program since FDR. We can replace this awful socialism with much better powerful alternatives, for example the FairTax.
As of now, the conservatives have the power in the amendment process and the liberals fear it. Which are you?