Quite correct.
However, do you have any reason to believe that a movement unable to win a super-majority in Congress can somehow get a majority vote from 3/4 of the state legislatures? That means 13 of the 99 houses can block the measure.
An amendment is MUCH, MUCH harder than an election, yet people keep proposing an amendment as a fallback position when they can't win the elections.
It's like saying I can't run a mile without being forced to stop, so instead I'll run a marathon.
>”However, do you have any reason to believe that a movement unable to win a super-majority in Congress can somehow get a majority vote from 3/4 of the state legislatures?”
First, the Tea Party rout of Congress in 2010 was small compared to the TP victories in statehouses the same year.
The TP is much stronger at the state level than at the federal level.
Second, to create an amendment for ratification only requires 2/3s not 3/4s. Ratification takes 3/4s yes, but to get the amendment to the states for ratification requires only 2/3s.
Third, historically in 1913 Congress was moved to act by a serious state conventions movement (see discussion by Publius earlier in this thread).
The bottomline is that we are now a Socialist country and Socialism does not stop until all of our freedoms are under state control. We need to act in a much more bold manner now. State Conventions is the way to go. It need only go as far as having Congress get serious and take it up itself.