The 16th amendment was not ratified correctly and we still live under its tirrany today.
When states vote to ratify they cannot make changes or adjustments. The 16th amendment had several states vote on alterations and send that in as their vote.
Then congress ignored that and called it ratified. Check it out.
Therefore with the courts staked so United Nations sympithizers wanting National law would allow a convention to go forward.
Also uncertain are the right of a state to rescind its ratification of a proposed amendment and the right of Congress to extend a deadline for ratification. In Coleman v. Miller the Court strongly indicated that only Congress could decide the rescission issue. Congress never dealt with the question, however, because the child labor amendment had not been ratified by enough states. Earlier decisions on rescission were inconsistent. At Congress's direction, the secretary of state counted the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment by three states that had voted to withdraw their approval of the measure. But the secretary of state apparently accepted North Dakota's rescission of its ratification of the Twenty-fifth Amendment (the presidential disability amendment added to the Constitution in 1967). Both the rescission and extension issues arose in October 1978 when Congress passed a thirty-nine-month extension for approval of the ERA, which needed ratification by three more states to be adopted. Opponents of the amendment challenged the extension, while supporters hoped to nullify the actions of four state legislatures in voting to rescind their previous ratification of it. In 1981 a federal judge in Idaho ruled that Congress had exceeded its power in extending the ratification deadline. He also ruled that states could rescind their approval of the amendment if they acted during the ratification period. Early in 1982 the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from those rulings. After the ratification period expired on June 30, however, the Court dismissed the case as moot, leaving the questions unresolved.