California has just called for an Articale V Convention

[Chan790]

64. That's not how Art. V conventions work.

They cannot be confined in that way. If you call an Art. V convention, it can amend whatever it sees fit, whether that's what it was convened for or not.

We have the same issue here in CT with our State Constitution, it's actually the exact model for the "convention" mode of amendment in the US Constitution...except we have to hold a plebiscite every 20 years to decide whether we want to have one or not.

The last time we voted for one in 1965, it was to fix an apportionment issue in how state representatives were elected, from every town having 2 to being based on population-based districts independent of town borders. That's what it was convened to do, the only thing it was convened to do...they took the opportunity at the same time to rename the Connecticut Supreme Court (The previous name was "The Supreme Court of Errors&quot , radically increase the executive powers of the Governor's office, move the portion of the state legislature required to override a veto from 50%+1 to 67% in both chambers of the state legislature, formally remove the clause that specified being a Non-Christian was a criminal offense (unenforced since the late 1800s), take away the governor's ability to pardon state inmates, and to specify a right to public education. Now, all or most of those things are not bad...but they were not what the convention was for and they were not on the agenda at the beginning of the convention.

Generally, it's understood at both the state and local level that a Constitutional Convention means a new Constitution and the end of the previous Constitution. It's not a bad idea...it's a fucking terrible idea. Any Democrat supporting it should be summarily-lobotomized with a screwdriver. Any Art. V. Convention today would be GOP-dominated (majority of the states have GOP legislatures so the majority of the reps would be Republicans.) ...once it's appointed, it's a runaway train...they don't have to go back to the states for approval on anything. They pass it, it's the law of the land.