Vermont is only one of fifty states of which 34 states are needed to pass amendments to be put to the ratification process of which 38 states are required to ratify.
So of course the State of Vermont can propose anything they like but to advance their proposal they will need 33 other state cosigners, and then an even higher bar will be getting 37 other states to ratify Vermont’s proposed amendment to make it part of the Constitution.
The Article V Convention is a means of putting the ruling class on notice that the people have woken up and are not going to take it anymore. Congress itself could propose amendments but who do we trust more? The entrenched ruling class aristocracy or the friends and neighbors in the communities surrounding us where we live?
There will be Vermonts, and there will have to be 13 of them in total to stop the will of the People who use Article V to express their will.
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.Move to Amend