All it takes is the Congress to draft a Constitutional amendment and offer it on the floor to bring about a Convention. Unfortunately, these are not the right times to open up the Constitution to liberal/progressive changes. The asshats in the early 20th century did enough damage!
Amen!
Leave the Constitution alone. Can you imagine what the liberals would like to do to the second?
The Constitution is fine the way it is, the problem is with activist judges interpreting it.
I would like to see the 17th repealed but not at the cost of liberals messing with all of them.
You've got some Constitution confusion. This is what Article V says...
"The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."
The Congress doesn't call a Convention, the State Legislatures do - specifically when 2/3rds of the states call for a Convention.
Amending the Constitution is - by design - extremely difficult to do. That is why after the adoption of the Constitution during the first Constitutional Convention, it has only been amended 17 times.