The idea of letting a 1/3 minority of the states having the power to shut down the federal government is laughable and would be impossible to enact. Two thirds of the states can’t amend the Constitution, they can only call for amendments. It takes three-fourths of the states to amend the constitution, and yet this ‘insanely high’ majority has been obtained dozens of times. The call for a constitutional convention has never passed not because it takes two-thirds of the states, but because people fear a runaway convention repealing the entire constitution.
“The idea of letting a 1/3 minority of the states having the power to shut down the federal government is laughable and would be impossible to enact. Two thirds of the states can’t amend the Constitution, they can only call for amendments. It takes three-fourths of the states to amend the constitution, and yet this ‘insanely high’ majority has been obtained dozens of times.”
When?
“The call for a constitutional convention has never passed not because it takes two-thirds of the states, but because people fear a runaway convention repealing the entire constitution.”
To be quiet honest I could live with a repeal of the entire constitution and thus abolishment of the Federal government.
That sounds very nice to me right about now. I don’t think it can get much worse then having the Federal Government’s own discretion rather then the constitution be the limits of its own powers. For all intensive proposes the Federal Constitution is a dead letter.
Their ain’t nothing that they can do in convention that would make our present situation significantly worse.
They can’t propose to Amend the Constitution as to remove the senate, and if they propose to replace it... well then our States can simply opt out of joining the new more imperial union. (We be rid of the leftist States and their commie abusive voters once and for all!)
So to be frank we ain’t got nothing to lose and everything to gain from a Constitutional convention at this junker in our history.
And if you payed attention to history we came with in just 1 state short of calling for a constitutional convention as presently as the 1960’s over the issue of the Federal court robing our states of their republican form of government.
Forcing the senate to be a popularly representing body rather then a regional body to check the tyrannical will of the pure majority.
That 33 states took 10 years to accomplish and by the time they did the damage done to our political system had precluded the possibility of any more of them getting it done.
The tyranny used their new power to consolidate control.
This is why I say 2/3rd is a REALLY BAD NUMBER!!