Our Civil War resulted in the origin of the Jack-Boot Central Government that we have now.
Article V State Constitutional Conventions is a much better way to go.
It will take 32 States to hold and approve the terms, or we could just split up into Multi-State Regions.
One Region might be the States that the XL Pipeline will eventually run through, for example.
War bad, State Constitutional Conventions good.
Let the people vote with their feet to find the Liberty or Federal Slavery that they want.
Our ancestors did it when they left Europe, and now that Obamanation is now Europelite, it is time to vote with our feet inside what was once The United States of America.
I’ve seen proposed maps of ‘multi-state’ regions; some quite interesting. One liberal multi-state region I would kick to the curb would be the area east of Interstate 81 and north of Interstate 64...another would be ‘Cascadia’...everything west of Interstate 5 on the west coast. How would you link these two regions; if at all?
If you go to this site, there is a PDF you can download that covers what the author has divined about an Amendments Convention called by the authority of the states under Article V, specifically the rules under which it would operate.
About 90% of the document is correct. The 10% that is wrong comes from making unwarranted assumptions based on how the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was called and how it operated. These assumptions are wrong because the original Convention was conducted under the rules of the Articles of Confederation, not the Constitution. The author also failed to read the American Bar Association's seminal 1973 document exploring how such a convention would work, how its members would be chosen, and how its purview would be limited by the state legislatures. Still, 90% isn't bad, and it's a good document to work with. I recommend it.
Do you really think that a federal government, backed by 16 of our largest states, will follow the constitution and just let a new convention happen?