"Having witnessed the difficulty and dangers experienced by the first Convention which assembled under very propitious circumstances, I should tremble for the result of a second meeting in the present temper of America and under all the disadvantages I have mentioned."
In other words, the first one was a godsend, a second one, even if good men think it is a great idea, will not be as advantageous as the first.
We have enough laws on the books and in the Constitution - what is really needed are people with enough cajones to enforce what we already have.
The country is broken and this is the only way to fix it without blood shed. Get on board for Art V or shut up.
The constitutional convention of 1787 was originally supposed to revise the Articles of Confederation. Instead, they scrapped the Articles of Confederation and completely changed our federal governmental structure.
While the outcome was beneficial, I would not really want to see a constitutional convention in this day and age. Key freedoms we take for granted, such as our freedom of speech, could be done away with, because liberals today want to surpress speech which offends liberals sensibilities.
Could our 2nd amendment rights survive a liberal onslaught at a convention?
Could our 1st amendment freedoms relating to religion survive? Could the liberals rewrite the clause relating to religion, to specify that the federal government can surpress religious faith? Maybe it sounds implausible, but, who knows what would happen at a constitutional convention with today’s liberals deciding to do away with constitutional provisions which they don’t like???
The Father of the Constitution would be appalled at the cowardice of people and states willing to endure far more abuses that the founders faced from a bloated runaway central government that’s morphing into a socialist state rather than suck it up and fix the problem with the means the founders provided to curb it. Without a convention of states all we have ahead of us is war or slavery, and too many folks are accustomed to the weight of the yoke.
You are correct about the Article V convention - but I will go further - it will be the worst thing that could happen to this nation.
Our problem is not our laws, it is our people. Some do not understand our system, many do not understand how corrupt the liberal faction is, and the people that believe in the new convention are fools who believe that a convention of today’s people and press is going to be the savior of this nation.
Our current constitution is not being enforced, so they believe that changing it will result in enforcement? It’s beyond foolish.
The most effective lies are wrapped around truths. A website called the New Americana put that deception out last year.
I shredded it to pieces in an extensive squib last November: The New Americana v. James Madison.