Nice to see lots of Freepers get it that Article V is not the magic potion to suddenly turn the Congress into believers in the Document of very few pages, versus the document they and with the complicity of the Supreme Court have been amending since it was ratified. In other words we the Republic and We the People, have been article fived to the point we now have 3000 plus pages of Constitution.
The point being, the Constitution was never the “problem”. The problem has always been the inability of the Executive, Congressional, and Judicial branches of government to stay within the constraints put upon them by the Original Constitution. In my opinion more Article V effort whether by Congress or we the people, will effect no change in the direction we are headed.
That said, I do believe, as you express the Congress needs to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment and State Legislatures need to elect Senators more interested in their own and other States rights and economic viability, than is presently exhibited by the 100 people who are directly elected Representatives of the people. We have 435 of those duly elected. We don’t need a 100 more acting generally as a force against States Rights.
An Article V Convention of States doesn’t involve Congress, it is true federalism by the people of the states. Right now, the left and the courts have caused a veritable impossibility in many ways of Congressional Constitutionalism. In other words, legislation and case law has already usurped the meaning of the Constitution. When you think that an ArtV/COS can strip those court case and laws back to original intent, you will change your mind. We haven’t been Article fived to any point, we’ve been overturned. We can use a COS to turn it back.