One question, when you talk about tinkering with the Constitution: Do we have ONE politician in the land who would be quailfied to carry one of the Founding Fathers’ jockstrap?
I have a better idea; let’s ENFORCE the Constitution we already have. If they won’t obey the original one, they’ll spit on anything else you might cobble up in an Article V Convention, too.
How do you propose we “enforce the Constitution we already have,” when to do that we must rely on the same people and institutions who are responsible for violating it on a daily basis?
The founders gave us this option to address precisely the situation we have in Washington, D.C., today. We should use it.
....” let’s ENFORCE the Constitution we already have”....
This comes back to my question as well...Amendments are proposed when the Constitution is WRONG on an issue, not when the government is DISOBEYING the Constitution....
If the government (representatives voted for) are disobeying the Constitution, how then can added amendments fix things when it is a runaway congress and entire governance of “representatives” who are not paying attention to the constitution as it is.?????????
We vote..but right now there’s no time....??????
Unfortunately, that’s NOT a very good idea. If it were that simple, it would have been done already. All that amounts to is a reason for doing nothing.
And please inform yourself. The delegates to a Convention of States will be among the most constitutionally conservative advocates of liberty alive, and will be bound by their mandate to reduce the power and scope of the federal government, apply fiscal restraints, and impose term limits on all federal officials.
To your final point that the constitution is not being followed now, I would submit that just the opposite is true. For the most part, government adheres VERY closely to the constitution... as interpreted by the Supreme Court. An amendments convention can (and will) attempt to clarify the vague and ambiguous language that the courts use to create powers never intended by the Founders.
Please examine the actual specifics of what’s being proposed by the Citizens for Self-Governance Convention of States Project for yourself and suspend for a moment your reliance on the misinformation being spread by elitists with a vested interest in supporting the status quo.