[Hostage]

Article V Ping please!

The question put before the group is how many of the 98 State Chambers are needed to make an application for an Assembly of States to exercise Article V of the US Constitution.

[Publius]

You need the legislatures of two-thirds of the states to petition Congress for an Amendments Convention, and the petitioning language must be identical so that the petitions may be tabulated by the Archivist of the United States in the correct column.

Because Nebraska is unicameral, there are 99 state legislative bodies in the calculation, not 100. You would need 68 (or 67 if Nebraska is in the calculation) legislative bodies that constitutionists -- not Republicans! -- need to control to get the correctly worded Article V petitions into the Archivist's hands.

[Jacquerie]

Article V ping!

To all of the 'we can't do anything at an Article V convention because of the states' naysayers, consider:

After the 2014 midterm, which looks increasingly like a Republican wave election that will bring victory to Republicans in state elections as well as Senate and House elections, that 56 state legislative chambers could grow . . .

The average person is p!ssed. The time is ripe to press for an extra-congressional convention to save our republic.