It is time to de-lawyer yourself.
Our constitutional house is burning down. Congress, Scotus, Obama are not only incapable of assisting in its salvation but purposely work to its demise. Can the victim really expect sympathy or assistance from his mugger? Since Congress has proved itself unwilling to call a convention in the past, it is wise to assume it will not do so in the future.
Return to first principles.
The Constitution does not prevent the states from convening. The 9th and 10th Amendments recognize just the opposite.
The people and the states are the component members of the American republic. Congress, President, Scotus are not; they are mere artifacts; they are the products of and servants of the people. When the servants cease to do their duty, it is not only the right, but the duty of the component members of the American republic to do their duty, which is to reframe the government of their creation such that it serves the general happiness and prosperity of the nation.
If the Constitution was the actual Supreme Law of the Land, there wouldn’t be any need today for the sovereign people via their states to appeal to higher law, that of the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God. No inferior power like Washington DC can alter, limit or diminish federal or popular state conventions that take their authority from the Law of Nature to define their government.
Its right there in our Declaration of Independence.
That is precisely what I am attempting to do. It seems you are the "innovator" here, not me. FWIW.