A Con-Con would be really scary stuff. Every nutball and activist would glom onto it like Silly Putty. We’d end up with amendments for a “right” to health care, a “right” to free college, a “right” to two weeks paid vacation, etc.
Oh I agree. No way do we want a constitutional convention because that opens up everything. But there is a process in the current constitution for amendments. And we have enough states on board to do it.
There might be such amendments but they would never be ratified by 37 states.
Right now 37 states have already signed into state law a version of DOMA.
Republicans and conservatives control the vast majority of statehouses. In fact the 2010 Tea Party tsunami was more devastating to liberals at the statehouse level than at the federal level.
A CC would quickly pare the nonsensical amendments out of the process.
The liberals can’t win in fly-over country unless they can convince conservatives to stop thinking about a CC because a CC would bring all sorts of BS amendments.....Oh Wait!
The task of keeping a convention’s agenda under control is in the hands of the Chairman.