Prudent conservatives should anticipate recalcitrance by Congress in performing its constitutional duty to call a convention because the entire purpose of the provisions of Article V is to circumscribe federal power. It is considered to be beyond argument, at least on these threads, that Congress feeds off the engrossment of federal power and it is in their selfish personal interests to protect both their power and their rice bowls. Moreover, history has demonstrated a repeated pattern of outright obstructionism by Congress in declining to call such conventions even in the face of application by the required number of states.
Nor is there any reason to believe that Republicans will be less obstructive than Democrats. We should anticipate rather that they will be passive aggressive and surreptitious in their obstruction much like Mitch McConnell behaves in sabotaging efforts to defund Obamacare or reduce spending by voting for cloture but against the final bill when his vote doesn't matter.
Historically, Congress has frustrated calls for Article V convention by finding discrepancies in the applications. Therefore, I think the conservative states' legislatures should coordinate the applications with identical wording. We have seen Congress simply delay the matter to death without calling a convention and therefore I believe the conservative states' applications should contain specifications as to date and place, also identically worded.
No doubt Harry Reid will decline to bring the matter before the Senate and if he retains control of the Senate he will no doubt let the matter languish in his desk drawer. The state applications should therefore contain identical wording stating an intention to proceed with the convention at the given time and place if either house of Congress fails to bring the matter to the floor.
Since it is likely that Congress will attempt to regulate the procedures of the convention as well is the subject matter, I recommend that the applications in identical wording make provisions for these subjects. This is especially critical as we will expect there to be challenges in Congress as well as Article III challenges demanding that the state be represented according to population and that the vote of the states in convention be made not on each state casting one ballot but on each delegate voting. Such a provision would wreck all conservative chances of restoring the Constitution to its original purpose.
No doubt others can contribute other provisions and cause this list to grow, I just wanted to suggest this possibility, concededly belatedly, in the hope to avoid obstructionism in Congress from both left and right.
