Ping List me, I’m all about the 17th.
If Congress can’t control the ‘convention of states’, they will try to co-opt the effort in order to corrupt it.
We all know how it should go, this convention of States, but is it really defined enough in the USCON that the States can do it exclusively on their own without the Congress going along with it?
How do we limit the convention to the single issue at hand, the problems caused by the 17th? What’s to stop a stealth candidate trying to overload the convention and mire it down by piling on other controversial ideas?
I’ll add you to the ping list.
Please visit the website. Mark’s latest book is also a great resource to answer your questions.
The scope of the CC cannot and should not be limited. The check on foolish amendments is the state ratification process after the CC passes and sends the amsnement to the states for ratification. The 17th repeal is only a part of the problem. You could argue that the constitution properly amended would not require repeal of the 17th.