Please show me in the Article V sentence where it details exactly how the conduct of a state-called convention is accomplished once the initial application for convention has met the magic number 34. The fact is that you nor any other COSer can. It is also convenient to rely on sentiment, thoughts about attitudes and numbers and what would happen, but no modern amendment we currently have today that I can determine was brought about by a Convention of States method.
If I am wrong about this then show me where. Otherwise calling legitimate concerns “phony issues” and “the arithmetic prevents such and such” is just optimistic talk about something that has never occurred.
What the article states is a threshold for beginning a process it does not regulate throughout - only the requirements for passing.
To ridicule apprehension at an ill-defined and untried process is disingenuous at best and worthy of tactics the AGW lobby uses against what they call “deniers”. Given the government, political system, and society we have today, you should know better.
Please show me in the Article V sentence where it details exactly how the conduct of a state-called convention is accomplished once the initial application for convention has met the magic number 34 There is a long series of historic precedents concerning how conventions are to be conducted which occurred in the states. Although there is no constitutional mandate that any form should be followed, it is reasonable to expect that Americans will observe their own history. Furthermore, it is reasonable to expect that every state legislature of 99 which is controlled by Republicans or at least by conservatives will pass authorizing legislation or at least resolutions concerning the behavior of the delegates and the scope of their authority. Finally, there are other structures which make a runaway convention quite unlikely.
It is also convenient to rely on sentiment, thoughts about attitudes and numbers and what would happen, but no modern amendment we currently have today that I can determine was brought about by a Convention of States method.
If I am wrong about this then show me where. Otherwise calling legitimate concerns “phony issues†and “the arithmetic prevents such and such†is just optimistic talk about something that has never occurred
You are wrong, the 21st amendment was enacted by conventions of the states.
The numbers are the numbers and they are not to be displaced by free-floating anxieties.
