General Discussion

I wrote this elsewhere about how bad of an idea this is… and it was already done once

“It's why they [ALEC] have been working so hard to take over enough states to call a Constitutional Convention to rewrite our Constitution.”
THIS is the biggest threat to the country, push by ALEC. Once convened, those present can do whatever they want including eliminating the constitution itself.

Similarly, former Chief Justice of the United States Warren Burger wrote in 1988:

[T]here is no way to effectively limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey. After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don’t like its agenda.

Why?
A convention could write its own rules.
A convention could set its own agenda, possibly influenced by powerful interest groups.
A convention could choose a new ratification process.
No other body, including the courts, has clear authority over a convention.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/states-likely-could-not-control-constitutional-convention-on-balanced-budget-amendment-or

A thought… Just like they did before in 1787, they could send state representatives to the convention, say 2 per state (as opposed to representation based on population) to eliminate the large, blue states, and write whatever ratification process they needed to overcome any objections.

...and ALEC are not that far away from succeeding

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I referenced ALEC, but didn’t give background:
This group is LITERALLY a VIP list of all the most right-wing financiers, politicians and corporate entities who operate especially at the state level to push pro-corporate, pro-extremist legislation across the country.

https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed