So when is the Constitutional Convention being scheduled? nt

[Samrob]

[sarisataka]

1. Have you written

To your Congresscritter and governor?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

2. Contact your state legislators

and keep in mind that once a Constitutional Convention is convened, it's all on the table. Everything in the Constitution.

[rsdsharp]

4. Not quite. Any changes would still need to be ratified

by 3/4 of the states.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

6. Agree

I'm just saying that there is no way to simply limit it to a single issue.

I think they're halfway to the 34 states needed for the convention already, but the states that are currently asking for one are absolutely looking to change things that we wouldn't want changed.

[PoliticAverse]

3. Do you mean an "Article 5" convention?...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution

[Ocelot II]

5. Believe me, you don't want that.

Whatever is left of the Bill of Rights will be gone if that happens. The right-wingers have wanted a constitutional convention for years for all the wrong reasons.

[2naSalit]

11. +1

At the moment it's a "bite your tongue" kind of issue.

[BannonsLiver]

7. Bahahaha

Broadly speaking not directly about CC’s but people had better be glad women and minorities were given the right to vote long ago because these are things that could not be done today given the climate. The GOP would oppose both simply because Dems would be for it, and it would never get done.

[Midnight Writer]

8. As soon as the Republicans can swing it. Re-writing the Constitution is a Right Wing dream.

[ripcord]

9. Have you looked at the ratio of blue vs red states goverments?

A Constitutional Convention would allow the republicans to introduce any issues they choose as well as those we want, with the states being 18 blue and 32 red we can't take that chance.

[roamer65]

10. It would also allow blue states to secede by injecting an "Article 50" type clause.

An article or amendment similar to the EU Lisbon Treaty, Article 50.

That’s how we would “poison pill” any changes in a convention.