The ratification process protects us from a run away convention. IMHO a balanced budget amendment is NOT what we need initially. The first order of business is the repeal of the 17th amendment. Doing so doing so will reestablish a strong state presence in the national legislature. I believe much of the mischief the federal government practices will be corrected by this simple change. Including correction of the endlessly active federal courts and agencies.
“”IMHO a balanced budget amendment is NOT what we need initially.
There is not a snowball’s chance in the hot stinky bad place of that happening. A constitutional convention would not be a Conservative only affair. And there is almost no public support.
Ooops my previous comment was intended to reply to this line... “The first order of business is the repeal of the 17th amendment.”