” Congress must decide whether the states will ratify by state legislatures or state ratifying conventions. A convention that ignores Congress and — more importantly — the Supreme Court would be considered an “outlaw convention” that would produce “invalid amendment proposals”, and the process under Article V would give Congress the legal wiggle room to ignore anything out of such a convention. There are rules within Article V, and everybody has to follow them.”
You mean they will declare it an outlaw convention just like the last ‘outlaw convention’ of 1787 which did not stick to the rule established by congress and the states in calling it.
Truth be know i fully expect that the lawless and corrupt Federal employees may try to extend their hands into the convention process but we must ignore their influence and move ahead anyway. The whole point of Constitutional convention is to bypass them, we must respect that propose and force Washington to respect it too should it be necessary.
As I pointed out, if an Amendments Convention decides to ignore Congress and the Supreme Court and meet anyway under its own rules in defiance of those two institutions, it would be considered a "meeting" and not a "convention" legally recognized under the Constitution. Nobody will stop that meeting, but its work will be ignored. Article V hands certain choke points to Congress, and Congress will take advantage of that.
How to "force" Washington to respect it moves into an area where the government has the advantage via a standing army, the NSA, drones, WMD's and a Mainstream Media slavishly devoted to it. To apply "force", we need to begin an educational effort right now to cut the ground out from under the Washington establishment. To its credit, the Convention of the States movement is doing that right now.