[LS]

Here is the only number you need to know: under the Articles of Confederation, ANY change had to be unanimous. So much for that. Those odds are hardly different than yours, yet you had a “runaway convention of states.”

[nathanbedford]

As much as I respect your chops as a lettered historian, I am compelled to say that there is an entirely different and respectable view of the constitutional convention which denies that it was runaway.

In any event it was unanimously ratified ultimately.

[Jacquerie]

It was the practical impossibility of amending the hapless Articles of Confederation that prompted the states to gather in convention.

[Jacquerie]

Please define a “runaway convention.”

I don’t wish to presume that you oppose the very existence of our Constitution.