[Political Junkie Too]

Because the states will ignore them and hold their convention anyway. Or their first order of business will be to set aside Congressional restraints and vote in their own rules.

Congress only has the power to call the Convention and specify the method of ratification.

Everything else not written down falls to the states themselves to decide via the 10th amendment.

-PJ

[Moseley]

Because the states will ignore them and hold their convention anyway. Or their first order of business will be to set aside Congressional restraints and vote in their own rules.

What makes you think the states will be represented at the Article V convention?

There is nothing in Article V that requires Congress to call a convention in which the states are represented.

Under Article V, the States APPLY, and the CONGRESS calls a convention. There is no further role for the States after they APPLY for the Congress to call a convention.

You are merely HOPING that the convention will consist of representatives of the States.

What is to stop Congress from calling a convention of the leaders of all the liberal public policy organizations like the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, etc.?

[Moseley]

Because the states will ignore them and hold their convention anyway.

Who says the States get a convention at all? You are only assuming that?

The only role for the States is to APPLY. After that, they're out of the picture.

So if Congress calls a convention consisting of 1,000 law professors, and NONE from the States, when do the States get to say anything at all?