Finally, this is only the last line of defense, there are innumerable steps along the way which make a "runaway convention" virtually impossible and render the need for the states to fail to ratify very likely superfluous.
The same was said in 1787 and we ended up with a runaway convention. Yes, the result that time was fortuitous, but the delegates which will be sent to the Article V convention aren't made of the same stuff as the Framers. Any change to the Articles of Confederation required unanimous consent of all the States. During the Constitutional Convention, that rule was changed. Why should we trust that any claims of "only 13 to defeat" and "virtually impossible" are true when we know that this did happen in the only example in united States history?
James R. McClure Jr.
Jeffersonian Anti-Federalist Democrat
And so then, just how would you propose to take our nation back from the elites that inhabit DC?