I wouldn't count on that. I mean our government was setup to mitigate the elements of corruption and look where we are at now?
It's not so much as qualifying who should go to the Article V convention. It's all about limiting the Article V convention to pre-approved topics.
Until I see that, it will always be a boondoggle for me. I will always see the first, second, fourth and Fifth amendments being changed to the public's detriment and jeopardizing our freedoms.
The Article V convention started out on the issue of amending the 17th amendment. Vis-a-vis how Senators are chosen. Why can't it be limited to the 17th amendment and issues therein?
“The result will be a disaster. I hate to think of the worst-case scenario. At best, the fight over every step along the way would consume our country’s political oxygen for years.” – David Marcus, professor of law at the University of Arizona
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Mr. Marcus (quote above) is no one special. He is one of many “do nothing” proponents around the country opining on an Article V Convention. I say to the “Mr. Marcus’s of the World”...……….”uh guys, we have a DISASTER NOW”. Soon, we will have anarchy to prove it along with open revolution in the streets, gunfire and all. So, your “do nothing” approach is not very encouraging to those of us who support an Article V Convention.
Amazingly, so called “legal scholars” are constantly mixing up an Article V Convention with a Constitutional Convention. Until an individual understands the differences between an Article V Convention and a Constitutional Convention he or she should not opine on the subject. The differences are as fundamental as Orville Wrights plane and an F 35.
<>It’s not so much as qualifying who should go to the Article V convention. It’s all about limiting the Article V convention to pre-approved topics.<>
That is where I disagree w/COS. Nothing in Article V nor the Philadelphia or Ratification debates supports the idea that the applications, or congress, or scotus, or whatever limit the topics of a convention. The COS is limited by the state commissions and nothing else.