[Publius]

It's not the Supreme Court that will butt in. It's Congress. I can give you a 100% guarantee that Congress will resurrect one of those bills from the Seventies or Eighties to regulate an Amendments Convention.

I can give you a 95% guarantee that at least one state will challenge Congress' authority to legislate in this area.

As to how the Supreme Court will resolve it, I don't know.

[Jacquerie]

I read a couple columns regarding behind the scenes interference by the white house in state affairs. It was directing labor unrest in WI and MI. Individual state legislators can expect increasing campaign support if they go along with Obama’s pet projects, such as gun control. This clear violation of separation of powers is just another outrage.

Given the known and certainly increasing rat infiltration and corruption of statehouses, it will be something of a miracle for 2/3 of them to agree to some amendments.

If they do, that means we'll be very close to the pitchfork, and storm the Bastille stage. At that point, if the people and states are that disgusted, I doubt they'll be prone to listen to baloney from the institutions that brought us the point of crisis.

Bullshit statist precedent that you cite will be irrelevant.