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To: OneWingedShark
Doesn't work like that. See the original US Constitution. When these groups get together, the first thing they do is vote to ditch the rules. When the US Articles convention met, they didn't even have a means to ratify the resulting document.

It is just silly to think that ANY existing rules---even to "be approved by 3/4 of the legislatures"---would BIND any Concon of this type.

56 posted on 07/18/2014 4:07:03 PM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: LS
It is just silly to think that ANY existing rules---even to "be approved by 3/4 of the legislatures"---would BIND any Concon of this type.

That's just it, it is not a constitutional convention, but a convention for proposing amendments — it's an important point.

60 posted on 07/18/2014 4:13:20 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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