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Suggestions that the United States call a new constitutional convention, as allowed in the Constitution's Article V, have popped up in some state legislatures and even on a page in The Wall Street Journal. No longer do these voices claim a convention can be limited to consideration of a single amendment (e.g., a balanced budget amendment) -- grandstanding politicians are proposing a wide assortment of many amendments to produce big changes.
Speaking to us from across the years, the father of the U.S. Constitution, James Madison, wrote this warning on Nov. 2, 1788, against calling another general constitutional convention.
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Good Advice Against a Con Con
Considering the fact that this is already happening with the way the Supreme Court,the President and the Congress all three are far outside their constitutional boundaries while aiming to go much much further, it is time that stop being scared of a Con Con and be more scared of letting the continued erosion of liberty and work to set things straight.
Every one of the things you listed that liberals would try to get through on a Con Con would have next to 0.000000000001% chance of actually passing through the states.
What would...