Charles Blow - NYT - "Liberals, This Is War"

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37. A Mock Constitutional Convention has already happened...Sept 2016, see links and related articles

It isn't alarmist that the looonnnnggg game is absolute power maintained..its been a 30 yr long game, made even more real with the redistricting in 2010. They only need 34 State legislatures to pass the motion for a constitutional conv.

This has been a bigger worry to me than Trump, Kav, etc.....they are all kogs in a wheel that could end up with the constitution ripped up and rewritten. Even the organization of government and 3 separate sectors could be scrapped.

Mock Const. Convention was held: Sept 21-26, 2016
https://conventionofstates.com/cos-simulation ... There is a final report posted there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/us/inside-the-conservative-push-for-states-to-amend-the-constitution.html?mcubz=0&_r=0

"So far, 28 states have adopted resolutions calling for a convention on a balanced-budget amendment, including 10 in the past three years, and two, Oklahoma and West Virginia, this spring. That is just six states short of the 34 needed to invoke the Article 5 clause."

"Article 5 places no limits on a convention’s power. Some experts note that the Constitution itself arose from a convention called to amend its predecessor, the Articles of Confederation — and tore up the document and started from scratch."


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-republican-constitution-amendment-20161205-story.html
The possibility of a convention dominated by delegates from a single party is "alarming," said Carolyn Fiddler, a spokeswoman for the national Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.

"There are no rules. They can just throw out the whole Constitution if they want to," Fiddler said. "It's the wildest of Wild West situations."

And another:
https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/constitutional-convention-explainer/index.html