However, Congress, as part of its Disposal power, sent it to state ratifying conventions, not state legislatures, for ratification. Each state held a special election to fill a state ratifying convention based on the makeup of its most numerous, i.e. lower, house.
A state ratifying convention is different from an Amendments Convention involving all the states.
Thanks for the clarification. I must have been thinking of a state ratifying convention in each state; but this does bypass to an extent the entrenched powers in the state legislatures.
Would an Amendments Convention be of the same magnitude as a Constituent Assembly? Well...one proposes amendments & the latter meets to create a new constitution.
It was the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918 that was dissolved by the Bolsheviks, touching off civil war & 70 years of communist rule.