Everybody’s all excited about this, but we have know way of knowing what would come out of this convention. It could be literally anything. Be careful what you wish for.
Listen to Mark Levin....he’ll explain it to you
It's a gamble - but may be the only way to prevent the awful "Plan B" - our VERY last resort.
I spoke several days ago with the secretary in the office of Representative from Oklahoma, Gary Banz, (R), who attended the conference at Mt. Vernon.
The meeting was devoted to process, not substance. That means that they were discussing means to make sure that at future meetings, the procedures and rules would be fair and allow everyone in attendance a voice, but would keep the outcome on our Constitutional rails.
The Article V amendment process IS CONSTITUTIONAL, and is NOT an open Let’s-Throw-Out-the-Present-Constitution “Constitutional Convention” that many fear, including Phyllis Schlafly - and rightfully so! Indeed, THAT could be a disaster.
The Article V effort is a Constitutional means for the state governments themselves to PROPOSE amendments to the Constitution, as a means to side-step an out-of-control Congress. They would NOT have the authority to simply vote out the present Constitution. They can ONLY PROPOSE AMENDMENTS.
According to Banz’s secretary, while it was not focused on at the recent Mt. Vernon meeting, apparently Banz left with the understanding that while there are a lot of amendments we would like to see passed, the consensus is to focus at future meetings on presenting a Balance The Budget amendment, something that has a LARGE prayer of being supported in large numbers by both Republican and Democrat grass roots people and their state legislators.
I believe the thinking is that if we can once get a single amendment passed using this method, then in the future, using that as a template, other amendment proposals could be considered. Nothing is decided; that just seems to be present thinking by many of the participants.
Indiana has passed some legislation (which I have not looked at) which reportedly could serve as prototype legislation enabling a state to participate and outlining the authority under which a delegate would be commissioned.