Convention of States

[lowprone]

Has anybody here researched this, just became aware of this recently and have been reading everything they have on their website.
Lots of known and respected folks linking to it.
Why is this not known by everyone disgusted with the elected leadership we now have ?

Article V of the U.S. Constitution gives states the power to call a Convention of States to propose amendments. It takes 34 states to call the convention and 38 to ratify any amendments that are proposed. Our convention would only allow the states to discuss amendments that, “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.”

[SomeOtherGuy]

Conventions have been known to get out of hand. The convention that resulted in our current Constitution of 1789 was called for very limited purposes as well.

In the current environment I would expect any revisions to reflect some mix of trendy socialism, the USSR's constitution (on paper it guaranteed more rights than ours - reality was rather different), and all the wisdom and forethought of obnoxious people with intelligence 1-2 standard deviations below the mean. Call me cynical.

[_Stormin_]

The thing is that you have a larger number of states that lean conservative than you do liberal. It will never happen, but I sure as hell would love it to occur. All of DC will never actually vote to limit their own ability to spend and stay in power.

[ABNAK]

I would prefer we not alter the Constitution. Rather I'd like to see us actually follow the Constitution as it is written.

[lowprone]

It is not calling for a Constitutional Convention, you obviously did not follow the link.

[SomeOtherGuy]

Has anybody here researched this, just became aware of this recently and have been reading everything they have on their website.
Lots of known and respected folks linking to it.
Why is this not known by everyone disgusted with the elected leadership we now have ?

Article V of the U.S. Constitution gives states the power to call a Convention of States to propose amendments. It takes 34 states to call the convention and 38 to ratify any amendments that are proposed. Our convention would only allow the states to discuss amendments that, “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.”

It is not calling for a Constitutional Convention, you obviously did not follow the link.

What link? There is no link in the original post.

[lowprone]

OK there is one now https://conventionofstates.com

[PatrioticDisorder]

Look at a 2016 electoral map, 20 states went blue, this may have worked 35-40 years ago, today I don’t think it would work.

[JoshNC]

I doubt a convention of states would go the way those of us who value the BOR and constitution would want. We would likely see thecgutting of the BOR, especially the 2a. We would end up with a more “progressive” socialist, statist rule of law than we currently have.

[Grand58742]

Then you have lunacy such as this:

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...ctoral-college

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) will sign a measure to award his state’s electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, moving a countrywide coalition one step closer to circumventing the Electoral College.

In an interview Sunday, Polis called the Electoral College an “undemocratic relic” of the nation’s past, one he wants to see relegated to the dustbin of history.

“I’ve long supported electing the president by who gets the most votes,” Polis told The Hill. “It’s a way to move towards direct election of the president.”

Colorado will become the 12th state to join the national popular vote interstate compact. Those 12 states and the District of Columbia, which has also passed a popular-vote bill, account for 181 electoral votes, just under 90 shy of the 270 votes a presidential candidate needs to win the White House.