An amendment IS A REWRITE of the Constitution.
All it takes is:
34th Amendment: The second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
And there is no set time limit on how long states have to ratify an amendment. The 27th amendment is an example, where it was proposed in 1789 and finally ratified in 1992.
So the repeal of the Second Amendment could be proposed, and be ratified perhaps decades later.
sigh... a repeal of the 2nd amendment would require 31 states to sponsor a specific amendment to do so.
It would NOT arise from a convention where states proposed:
1) the ability of 2/3 of the states to set aside a uSSC ruling
2) repeal of 16th amendment
3) mandatory term limits for Congress
4) line item veto for executive office on budgets
5) repeal of 17th amendment
.... all of which are on kind of a conservative “wish list”
anyway, a con con which proposes THESE SPECIFIC AMENDMENTS cannot.. CANNOT.... CANNOT be magically transmogrified into a catchall convention to make NOW the new Congress, install Al Sharpton as president for life, and repeal the first and second amendment (and the fourth and fifth for good measure).
The hysterical blubbering nonsense that invariably arises about this junk shows you WAY WAY more about the ignorance of the process of Article V and the irrational willingness to remain so than it does the actual dangers.
A political environment that is so corrupted that can produce such a magical event is such that your silly little piece of paper will not save you anyway.
Wow that’s crazy. Scary too. Thanks for posting. I don’t remember that happening.
Everything you’ve mentioned is already in effect, except that only Congress has ever proposed an Amendment. Odd that you think a 3/4 majority of the states couldn’t do better and is something to fear.