He doesn’t have the power to call a constitutional convention under Article V. It can only be called by “The Congress . . . on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states...”
Add a marriage amendment and a human life amendment
So, get rid of the 3/5ths clause and the 13th ammendment...???
After a convention of state, which is required and the current president can only be ex officio...
Someone has to much time on their hands....
From the few replies already you see some problems. You call for a convention, it is open season on the Constitution. It cannot be limited afaik to the matter at hand but open to all ideas.
And I am not in favor of a 4-year Senate term. There is a good reason the framers structured it the way they did and that was precisely to prevent “faddish ideas” from sweeping the Republic. It was designed to slow things down and let cooler heads prevail by rotating 1/3 of the Senate every 2 years.
Though I will admit, with party politics and the fealty politicians owe to the party (think about how much someone would owe to Chuck Schumer if he raised $100 million to get that person a $150,000 a year job) that protection has been eroded.
Sorry. The only Constitutional Convention I will support is one aimed dissolving the union.
I don’t want a new or rewritten constitution. I want to see The Republic of Texas arise again.
As far as I understand it, a President cannot call for one.
The only reference to slavery is in the 13th Amendment. You want to repeal that?
No.
It is appalling how people come up with ideas that are not only dangerous and incorrect, but do not understand the actual constitution. The notion of a SNAP constitutional convention would allow mob and majority rule every four years. Thank God our framers new better
For the record, an Article V convention carries an extremely high bar. It can originate in the states with a supermajority the state legislature demanding that the federal congress schedule the convention OR 2/3 of both house chambers with approval of 3/5 of the states would yield to a convention
Once the convention is opened, it has the full force of possibly causing a runaway convention where it is as equally likely that we would under of with abortion on demand the destruction of republic for national votes etc.
This is not only a terrible idea, but an uneducated on at best.
Nope.
That would be unconstitutional.
Sure, call for a new constitution because we don’t honor the original. What makes you think it will make any difference?
A new convention is an exercise in futility at best. But it would likely be hijacked by the liberals in media and education and become our worst nightmare. You think Antifa and BLM are something now? A new CC would be a disaster.
The size of SCOTUS should be fixed by amendment.There could be an argument for fixed terms instead of “good behavior;” each two-term president should have a fixed number of nominations to SCOTUS.
If the number of SCOTUS nominees per presidential election is fixed at 2 and the number of justices on the bench is fixed at 9, that would correspond to a term of 18 years for each justice.
You could also consider having the president elected in years which are evenly divisible by 8 nominate two justices, and presidents elected in other elections only nominate one justice - which would correspond to a term of 24 years.
The other viable option, IMHO, would be to ramp up to 11 justices and allow 2 new justices every four years. Which would correspond to 22 year terms for justices.
But if you do nothing else, fix the number of justices on SCOTUS.
Seesh, let’s let him focus on the election fraud instead of a bunch of hairbrained ideas.
The biggest change I’d like to see, short of the “snap constitutional convention,” is the abolition of the 17th Amendment. That amendment created the popular election of senators. We need to go back to having the senators appointed by state legislatures as originally in the Constitution. It was passed in 1913 and I believe its life has expired.
Nice try. If you desire a change in the Constitution, make some sense in your proposal.
Publish your “reasoning” in a Twenty First Century edition of “The New Federalist Papers.”
“Splain” yourself.
This government is illegal, it no longer represents its citizens but seeks to represent tech oligarchs and the rest of the world. It should therefore be declared null and void.
A new parallel government needs to be establish that will eventually take the place of the current existing regime.
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 8, 2021, TheHill.com, Reid Wilson — Conservative lawmakers will mount a new push to call a constitutional convention aimed at creating a balanced budget amendment and establishing term limits for members of Congress in an effort to rein in what they see as a runaway federal government.State legislators meeting at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s policy conference here last week hope to use Article V of the Constitution, which allows state legislatures to call a convention to propose new amendments.
“It’s really the last line of defense that we have. Right now, the federal government’s run away. They’re not going to pull their own power back. They’re not going to restrict themselves. And so this Article V convention is really, in my opinion, is the last option that we have,” said Iowa state Rep. John Wills (R), the state’s House Speaker pro tempore who backs the convention.
At least two-thirds of states must pass a call to force a convention; so far, 15 states have passed the model legislation proposed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative group that backs free markets and states’ rights.
Bills have passed at least one legislative chamber in another nine states, and bills have been introduced in 17 more states. The 15 states that have passed measures so far all have Republican-controlled legislatures and Republican governors; another nine states totally controlled by the GOP have yet to finalize passage, according to Convention of States Action, a project of the conservative group Citizens for Self-Governance.
Once a sufficient number of states have approved a call to a convention, Congress gets to set the initial rules. Article V says any proposed amendments would have to be ratified by three-quarters of the states to take effect."