[dware]

The Founders were smart enough to know that Congress would never propose amendments limiting Federal power, so if it became tyrannical, the only way was to give the sovereign states that power as well, when the people demanded it.

Agreed. However, they did so in a time when the show was not being run by the uni-party. Today, the GOP would bend over backwards to give the left whatever they want in an Article V convention. One would be delusional to think otherwise, especially after the actions of the GOP in this election.

[TBP]

First, an Article V convention or Convention of States is not allowed to consider anything outside the call of the convention.

Second, 3/4 of the states (38) have to ratify anything that it produces.