[BillyBoy]

Interestingly enough, numerous RAT legislators in the Illinois General Assembly have announced they strongly support a Constitutional Convention of the states:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3233521/posts

Obviously, they must be outstanding patriots who want to reign in control of the feds and enforce the 10th amendment in order to restore our Republic to what the founders (and Mark Levin, his name is interchangeable with Thomas Jefferson) envisioned.

[Publius]

Illinois Democrats want an Amendments Convention for the purposes of modifying the 1st Amendment to restrict political speech. If 33 other states are willing to submit petitions to Congress for that cause, then we'll have an Amendments Convention for that one purpose. But that's never going to happen with 39 legislatures in Republican hands.

I should note that if 34 states petition Congress for an Amendments Convention using Georgia's language to restrict federal power and enhance state power, and if such an Amendments Convention is held, should a delegate from Illinois introduce an amendment to restrict political speech, the convention's chairman will instruct the gentleman from Illinois to take his seat because this particular Amendments Convention has not been authorized by the states to discuss that subject.