[LS]

Holy cow. I know you are smarter than this. The original Articles delegates had "restrictions" placed upon them "by the states." Seriously? So the new one would somehow actually ENFORCE those rules? The idea of a runaway is anything BUT remote. I defy you to point to ANY such national gathering in any nation where it limits on the delegates worked. Russia? French assembly in 1789? It just doesn't happen.

Not in a million years. And don't give me this crap about what "fight" I'm in. This is a quick suicide bullet. You're free to go out that way, but I'm not going with you. Whether or not we're suffering doesn't mean you go introduce yourself to Dr. Kevorkian.

[nathanbedford]

The original Articles delegates had "restrictions" placed upon them "by the states."

You are rewriting history.

And don't give me this crap about what "fight" I'm in

You have not answered the point that the left is already attempting to rewrite the First Amendment proving that the left does not need us to initiate an Article V process. You are indeed in that fight but don't worry they are not going to be able to change the first or the Second Amendment because of the arithmetic I pointed out in my post #52 which I again recommend to your attention.

There is a history of conventions and there is a history of states controlling their delegates. The United States has never had a runaway convention including the Constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787 which was fully within the charter of the Articles of Confederation and the authorizations of the states and was properly ratified.

In short there is no historical American basis for your fears.