Be careful what you wish for. In this era of the low information voter and the ascendency of the entitlement mentality an constitutional convention could backfire big time. Once started there’s no way to predict where it will go.
It is NOT a free-for-all.
/johnny
It’s a convention of the states, where 2/3s of the states have to send delegates on a specific subject. Any amendments have to get approved by 3/4ths of the states. It’s highly controlled and highly unlikely left-wing ideas would get through that process. Hell, it’s tough to get wildly popular ideas like term limits through that process.
What I've been confiding to my wife in private is that it's time to just shut this country down and start over.
Either we can get back to the Constitution or something else can happen. "Let it begin here."
Call everyone else in the world and ax them if they wouldn't mind if we just took a time out lasting a year or so and get back to them.
I'd never say such a thing in public forum, of course. /s
The founders, particularly Madison, pushed for and got this option into the Constitution precisely because they feared one day that the Federal body would become corrupt and without such an option, there would be no means or avenue for the states to respond and remedy the issue short of by force of arms.
That day has arrived.
Yes, certainly it is an option which the very same progressives, socilaiists, marxists, etc. will try and coopt. First they will try and have it absolutely ignored. But should it appear to be gaining traction, they will then try to demonize anyone associaed with it, and failing that, they will try desperately to get their own people in there to use it as a means to continue to advance their agenda.
However, the current course we are on has shown a not only increasing allowance for uncosntitutional acts by the Executive, the Judiciary, and the Legislative branches of the Federal Government (IOW, by the entire Federal Government), but at an accellerating rate.
There is little hope that an appeal to those bodies will result in any meaningful halt...though we must oursleves, through good candidates and movements like the Tea Party continue to avail ourselves of that option as well.
But, at this point, I have more faith in the states themselves controlling the attendees, than I do in the Congress...and particularly the Senate at this point.
IMHO, we need to put the pressure on, and heavily, from both directions, and pray to God in Heaven, as our founders did, for His help as we give our all in maintianing our liberties and restoring our constitutional government.
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
A convention either fixes the problems or it brings them to a head. Either way, I think it is our best chance to avoid a 40 slump into socialism/tyranny.
Your comment reads almost (but not quite as bad) like the super-ignorant ones on Slate. Please, I hope we have a higher order of member here on Free Republic.