California has just called for an Articale V Convention

[freshwest]

61. The amendment that has been offered is specific. No amendment in the Constitution after the 10th...

Involved an Article 5 Convention, literally required to ratify the Constitution itself.

The other 23 each went through Congress and the states SINGLY, not as part of an Article 5 Convention which leave open the entire Constitution and the Amendments passed in the hands of those legislatures.

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

I gathered signatures to get the eighteen year old vote and the ERA. The causes were essential.

The overturning by amendment of Citizens United is as far as it should go. Nothing but an USSC interpretation is in play and here is what the supporters say:

https://movetoamend.org/

They don't call for an Article 5 Convention. It's not necessary to get rid of Citizens United, but Tenthers want this very much, they've been calling for it for years.

This is a Trojan horse.

People must vote out elected officials and not rush into this, it's the best way to do it and the most sure: there is no promise that the Convention would stay on that one issue or even address the problem.

Democrats should think a few steps ahead and not get carried away with the excitement when it's hard to get them to work in the state to begin with.

We see the quality of the state legislatures, the HoR, the media and the organization of the conservatives. They have the money to get enough people bussed in to make the Convention follow their vision.

They will buy and sell this country and its citizens, no reason for them to change their low opinion of most of us. I know the frustration but the American people are being manipulated by big money, even in the anti-corporate, anti-government, anti-whatever groups pretending to be on the other side of things when they are so heavily funded or philosophically tied to the megabucks.

This is what the RW has wanted since Brown v. The Board of Education:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education

That was resolved on the back of the 14th Amendment, which took a war and two more amendments to begin the process of giving blacks the legal standing not given in the original Constitution. The 14th is the bedrock of Roe v. Wade, same sex marriage and almost every other piece of regulation and law since then.

It is railed against by the same voices that use emigrants, gays and abortion as the boogeyman. This will not be a Convention full of liberals.

Thanks for asking my opinion.