[redgolum]

You do know that a new constitution would be a disaster right?

Goodbye bill of rights for starters.

[Nateman]

I absolutely disagree with you. Article V got put into the Constitution by the founders for exactly what we face today . Up till now only Congress has submitted any amendments to the states and guess what? Those cursed additions to the Constitution have Centralized power in Washington. It's way past time the the State Houses got a shot at coming up with a few of their own counter offers. Don't forget whatever comes out of that Convention still needs a 3/4 vote of the States to pass. The same hurtle Congress had to cross . If there is anything to worry about it's that some good amendments won't get ratified!

[arderkrag]

Everytine someone mentions a new constitution or a convention of states, I roll my eyes. Both are disasters waiting to happen.

[Nuc 1.1]

Utter nonsense.

[PIF]

These A5ers must be all ‘kumbaya’ and ‘can’t we all get along’ types sporting Coexist stickers on their electric cars. A real convention would eat them alive.

However, it is no use telling them that the founders assumed that people today would be educated at least as well as they were.

No use telling them that they would be too busy to attend, too complacent to understand that socialists would dominate the AV convention.

No use telling them that all too many socialists are very wealthy and all too many conservatives are relatively poor and must work, precluding any year long A5 attendance.

An A5 Convention will fix all the wrongs they perceive with the current Constitution. Afterward say hello to your new masters like O-C and her ilk where we will all get along in the shiny new country on the hill called the United States Socialist Peoples Republic ... or else.

Disaster is too gentle a description ..

[Shery]

You totally misunderstand the article V process. It was set in the constitution by our forefather to make needed corrections when the left had gone too far. It CANNOT overturn the Constitution. It is a godsend in that way. Quit listening to Phyllis Schaffly because she is being misdirected by people who don’t want her support for it, because it would expose the democrats for what they are.