It's only power is to propose Constitutional Amendments which must be ratified in the ordinary Constitutional manner.
Here’s an article that contradicts your statement, who is right I’m not sure.
This article indicates that 34 States on their own could call a Constitutional Convention and basically set up their own rules and agenda.
The only Constitutional Convention ever held was in 1787 when the Bill of Rights were approved and in that conventional amendments were approved by the rules setup by the convention.
The term is being used interchangeably.
Leading to an actual CC. I don’t trust them even this early. 😎✌
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The amendatory process under Article V consists of three steps:
Proposal:
There are two ways to propose an amendment to the Constitution.
Article V gives Congress and an amendments convention exactly the same power to propose amendments, except that a convention is limited to proposing amendments specified in the application and there is no such limit on Congress.
Direction:
Once Congress, or an amendments convention, proposes amendments, Congress must decide whether the states will ratify by the:
The state ratifying convention method has only been used once: to ratify the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition. A similar procedure was used to ratify the Constitution itself.
Ratification:
Depending upon which ratification method is chosen by Congress, either the state legislatures vote up-or-down on the proposed amendment, or the voters elect a state ratifying convention to vote up-or-down. If three fourths of the states vote to ratify, the amendment becomes part of the Constitution.
Forbidden Subjects:
Article V contains two explicitly forbidden subjects and two implicitly forbidden subjects.
Explicitly forbidden:
Implicitly forbidden:
Reference work:
Proposing Constitutional Amendments by a Convention of the States: A Handbook for State Lawmakers