"The initial meeting won't actually consider potential amendment topics, Long said. Instead, it's intended to set up the rules to be followed if and when a constitutional convention is called."
Senator Long's idea is brilliant. It will be a pre-amendment convention, not unlike the first Mount Vernon convention of 1785. Returning delegates will inform their legislatures of the concerns of other states, and hopefully get all the states to agree to a common application to congress.
The pre-meeting rule setting is okay. I’ve no problem with that.
But if it isn’t set prior to the states convention that they will only address issues arising from the 17th amendment, then I simply won’t support it.