Personally, I think a COS is a bad idea. If it ever actually happens, it WILL be taken over by radical dems, and our republic will be gone.
I've heard that for years. No one has explained why a majority of state legislatures will instruct their delegates to screw America.
Wrong answer. If this Convention goes out of the bounds upon which it is called the application is voided. Voiding an application is already a done deal, otherwise a convention for a Balanced Budget would have already qualified. Also applications under various reasons would imply they have to limit themselves to the reason it was called, otherwise Article V could have been invoked numerous times. Wisconsin actually sent a request to Congress at one point saying the Convention had to be called already. Congress clearly set the precedent by not honoring that demand.
“Personally, I think a COS is a bad idea. If it ever actually happens, it WILL be taken over by radical dems, and our republic will be gone.”
This is my fear as well!
COS would have you believe there is absolutely nothing to worry about. That attitude alone tells me all I need to know. Thanks for standing on the side of the Constitution and the Republic, if we can keep it.
No, the left cannot take this over. The COS resolution is limited and there is history of at least 37 conventions between the states in which NONE of them were taken over by anyone.
Instead, the hard Soros funded left is against Convention of States and Article V and have so stated on their websites such as Common Cause, Democracy 21, and many more.
IN FACT, the left makes the same argument you do about the convention being taken over, just by different forces than you. Your argument is theirs.
PDF 200+ Soros funded groups - Constitutional Rights and Public Interest Groups Oppose Calls for an Article V Constitutional Convention>https://www.commoncause.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/issues/more-democracy-reforms/constitutional-convention/constitutional-rights-and.pdf
https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/article-v-convention/