[Old Teufel Hunden]

"How about something we can all get behind like a repeal of the 17th Amendment?"

There are probably 100 people who can't get behind this. They reside in the Senate and unless 2/3rds of them agree to pass this constitutional amendment bill it's going nowhere. I don't think you'll get 2/3rds of them to vote themselves out of a job.

[MountainWalker]

Or, we can just go Article V and eliminate them from the process.

[stremba]

That’s why the Constitution includes an alternative way to propose amendments. The founders recognized this very problem and included the method of having a convention called by the states for the purpose of proposing amendments. We have not yet used this method so the media tries to scare the sheeple away from it by calling it “radical” or “unprecedented”. The truth is that an Article V convention is really not a radical departure. It’s just a way to bypass Congress in the amendment process. The same check on the convention exists as it does on Congress’s power to propose amendments. Any amendment proposed by a convention must still be ratified by 38 states to take effect.