I appreciate your enthusiasm but every time you counter you make the case why we should not open the convention, rather, we need to fight them a different way until we know we have trustworthy participants. What you propose is a direct route to destruction, like jumping out of a high story window.
Just look at the cabal of anti-American governors who orchestrated the turmoil we now find ourselves fighting our way out of. Do you think for a moment the state representatives served by the same governor cabal could be trusted to follow the “strict guideline...?” That’s a rhetorical question no answer needed.
Neither of us know the outcome a COS.
We know the rats/never Trumpsters have corrupted elections such that they’ll never let go of power.
I support free government, even the foolish and destructive 17th Amendment which needs to go.
Article V exists precisely for times like these: the renewal of self-government we can no longer expect from federal elections.