Could be an extremely dangerous thing to do, unless the convention is very limited in scope.
Even then. No way to keep the so-called progressives out.
Hello Highest Authority.
Would you be a little more specific about why a convention can be dangerous? After all, the product of a convention is never a new amendment to the Constitution, only a proposed amendment that the states can choose not to ratify, the convention arguably a waste of time if states reject proposed amendment.
That being said, if next convention proposes an amendment to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments (16&17), with provision for recall of lawmakers, then let’s do it!
Repeal 16&17 amendment should also require future federal senators to first serve in state houses in order to become familiar with state budgets, particularly if states wise up and put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Being a lawmaker in state houses should help future federal senators kill unconstitutional bills in the federal congress, bills that not only steal state powers, but also steal state revenues uniquely associated with those powers.
Not dangerous at all since nothing can come out of it. Last year 25 states went for Trump and 25 went for Biden. Anything coming out of the convention will take 37 states to ratify. Not a chance of 37 states agreeing on anything.
“Could be an extremely dangerous thing to do, unless the convention is very limited in scope.”
TRUE.
Let’s limit this one to controlling the ballot box. The founders couldn’t think of everything.
Asymmetric PUSHBACK