The Convention of States project is using Article V of the US Constitution to organize state legislators to amend the Constitution. And it has made and continues to make good progress.
Under Article V, California and New York don’t matter because states small in population have equal power to the big states. For example, New York’s vote is equal to North Dakota’s, California’s vote is equal to Utah’s and so on. That is because it doesn’t matter what the population numbers are for any particular state because each state gets an equal power under Article V.
Note that 38 states are needed to ratify an amendment to the Constitution. Note that there are 12 states that are blue and 38 states that are red in term of their state legislatures. Note that republicans control 66 of 99 state legislative chambers (Nebraska has only one chamber). Note that it is up to state legislatures to vote under Article V, not the voters.
Great points and well written and I pray your analysis is infinitely MORE correct than mine!!
That said, I “note” that our Republican Majorities are, as evidenced by last weeks Omnibus bill, made up of about 80% Liberal’s who, to get elected, call themselves “conservative” and the nit wit, brainless Republican voters elect and re-elect the bastards time after time.
This countries problems are SO FUNDAMENTAL!!! Evidentiary point # 1 and really the only point that matters is that somewhere between 44% and 47% of people that GO VOTE are brainless, mindless, socialist, Marxist Democrats that quite LITERALLY would vote for a child molester for president if the DNC regurgitated such a candidate up for the Democratic Party’s nomination.
This 44-47% has so far prevented the Article V Convention you speak of and there is not much time left on the clock.