[templar]

Good Grief .. what is that?

One of those evil little things waiting to be sprung on us at the right momemt, should we ever allow it to occur. There was a fairly strong push about 8-10 years back to get a constitutional convention (supposedly limited to a single reform, but several different groups were pushing it on different reforms, and a constitutional convention cannot have limits once it is called). A fair number of States were signing on to the idea. Don't remember the details any more; anyone?

[Mo1]

A fair number of States were signing on to the idea.

Good Lord .. has this country gone nuts

[AntiGuv]

I do recall that those calling for a Constitutional Convention got very close - something like 35 or 36 of the necessary 38 State legislature applications. Then, several of the States withdrew their [once-thought symbolic] endorsements when it looked as if the push would succeed. Including those states as well as a few others that passed motions afterward, their would've been 39 states total (this has been litigated, iirc).

Anyhow, I seem to recall that the foremost driving issues were taxation & deficits.