For a Convention of the States dedicated to Georgia’s application language, which would re-balance citizens’ rights versus federal power and state power, the count is 12 down, 22 to go.
For a Convention of the States dedicated to a balanced budget amendment only, the count is 30 down, 4 to go.
Its sad/amusing to read the "let's enforce the Constitution we have" chorus. Its as if they are immune to the written and practical lessons of history. Read Livy, Machiavelli, Locke, Sidney, Cato, Jefferson, Madison, and our own Declaration of Independence. For those too lazy for study, we need look no further than our colonial and early experience under the Articles of Confederation to see what happens under unamendable governing forms.
I've read every post to this thread so far, and you'd think our Constitution was perfection on earth. Which Constitution? The 1787 Constitution, the Constitution after the Bill of Rights, the Constitution after the 13th-15th Amendments, or perhaps the 16-17th? Anyway there are twenty-seven amendments and I'm not sure which one the chorus thinks we should enforce. Oh, we should just enforce the latest? Okay. Since, by the chorus, it doesn't make a difference, let's start with repeal of 17th and see what happens.
Not even our Framers thought their Constitution was perfection. They said it wasn't. They included Article V so that self-governing people in a republic could keep their republic. Duh.
On this, of the DUTY of the sovereign people to correct errors and shortcomings as they become evident, the Framers spoke with one voice.
I realize that won't budge the chorus. Actually, they needn't worry. There are hundreds of Article V applications scattered through the national archives. Congress will never call a state-derived Article V convention. This should please the chorus until the moment the creaky gears of our once free government come to a grinding halt.
Another wrongheaded idea out of the gate that fails to address the real problem of unconstitutional federal spending and would actually make matters worse, allowing the Lying Left to force higher taxes to ratify their out-of-control and mostly unconstitutional spending. It would be a disaster.