[CIB-173RDABN]

I did not make myself.

There already exist a way to change the constitution. Amendments can be proposed and the states can vote on them.

Without the need to toss the entire constitution.

[Publius]

Without the need to toss the entire constitution.

An Amendments Convention under Article V only has the power to propose amendments to the Constitution, not throw it out and start over.

Can it propose 60 amendments that would substantially change the document? Yes.

Can it throw it out and start over? No.

You'd have to amend the language of Article V first to permit a throw-out-and-start-over process.

[Political Junkie Too]

There already exist a way to change the constitution. Amendments can be proposed and the states can vote on them. Without the need to toss the entire constitution.

You are arguing against yourself. The Article V convention is the existing way to change the Constitution.

They cannot "toss the entire constitution" because the process is amendment by amendment, and then ratification by ratification.

Unlike the original Constitutional Convention under the Articles of Confederation, today there exists the Supremacy Clause of Article VI. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and it cannot be wholely swept aside unless someone proposes a sweeping amendment saying "The entire Constitution is nullified and replaced with this...," and then gets it passed, and then gets 3/4ths of the states to ratify it.

-PJ