[Political Junkie Too]

Except that, based on the words in Article V, and wholesale rewriting of the Constitution has to be done amendment by amendment by amendment, and then each amendment has to be passed separately by 3/4ths of the states.

Are you afraid of one humongous amendment that says "Amendment XXIIX: Delete the Constitution and all 27 prior amendments, and replace it with this one?"

-PJ

[editor-surveyor]

>> Are you afraid of one humongous amendment that says “Amendment XXIIX: Delete the Constitution and all 27 prior amendments, and replace it with this one?” <<

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Its coming soon through UN treaties, and the GOPe won’t lift a finger to stop it.

[SampleMan]

First, how are going to hold them to the wording of the Constitution? If that was possible, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in.

Second, read Article V, it doesn’t say that 3/4s of the state legislatures must ratify, it says, “...when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress;”

Should Congress choose Conventions in the states, what are the rules of those Conventions? Can Congress or the Federal Courts make the rules? I would wager that they think they can. Which gets us back to my initial statement, i.e. a Convention in the current climate would result in civil war.