Got booster yesterday...under the weather today....after reading this feel much worse!! Not surprised as I realize there is Republican activity, statewide, all across the country. Democrats' voting percentages in mid-terms are abysmal. We do NOT have the imagination to think this is possible. The ascendency of TFG should have changed that. Thanks for this.
According to Wikipedia, there are literally hundreds of state applications for a constitutional convention on many different subjects including Bill of Rights, Direct Election of Senators, Anti-Polygamy, General and Unlimited Article V Convention and others. My question: If any one of these applications succeeds in getting enough states to trigger a Constitutional Convention, does that mean that once the Convention is in session, any and/or all of the applicants can be considered regardless of the number of state applications? The application for Direct Election of Senators seems close to qualifying for a convention. Or does each application subject have to have two-thirds of state applications to qualify for consideration in the convention?
The one with 38 votes gets the convention, but all of that (and everything else) would be up for grabs.
The one for Direct Election of Senators was taken care of 110 years ago with the 17th Amendment, but that shows how Article V is supposed to work: they tried for 30 years go get direct election of Senators (which under the original Constitution were chosen by State Legislatures, which is how we got the states of North and South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming all in 1889 - all reliably Republican then and since, cementing Republican control of the Senate at the time the Populist Movement was threatening R control of other western state legislatures, and the senatorial appointment power). So they pushed for the Constitutional Convention, which neither the Republicans or Democrats at the time wanted (since they weren't insane then) so they put forth the 17th Amendment to avoid the possibility of a radical rewrite.
Thank you, TC. I am so grateful for your knowledge. You have increased my understanding. So, now we are back to The General and Unlimited Article V Convention state applications being dangerously close to qualifying for a Constitutional Convention that could also place on their agenda any of the other state applications. That is scary!
Got booster yesterday...under the weather today....after reading this feel much worse!! Not surprised as I realize there is Republican activity, statewide, all across the country. Democrats' voting percentages in mid-terms are abysmal. We do NOT have the imagination to think this is possible. The ascendency of TFG should have changed that. Thanks for this.
Gulp.
To hell in a handbasket
Is there any other destination? :-)
Not for me. 🔥
According to Wikipedia, there are literally hundreds of state applications for a constitutional convention on many different subjects including Bill of Rights, Direct Election of Senators, Anti-Polygamy, General and Unlimited Article V Convention and others. My question: If any one of these applications succeeds in getting enough states to trigger a Constitutional Convention, does that mean that once the Convention is in session, any and/or all of the applicants can be considered regardless of the number of state applications? The application for Direct Election of Senators seems close to qualifying for a convention. Or does each application subject have to have two-thirds of state applications to qualify for consideration in the convention?
The one with 38 votes gets the convention, but all of that (and everything else) would be up for grabs.
The one for Direct Election of Senators was taken care of 110 years ago with the 17th Amendment, but that shows how Article V is supposed to work: they tried for 30 years go get direct election of Senators (which under the original Constitution were chosen by State Legislatures, which is how we got the states of North and South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming all in 1889 - all reliably Republican then and since, cementing Republican control of the Senate at the time the Populist Movement was threatening R control of other western state legislatures, and the senatorial appointment power). So they pushed for the Constitutional Convention, which neither the Republicans or Democrats at the time wanted (since they weren't insane then) so they put forth the 17th Amendment to avoid the possibility of a radical rewrite.
Thank you, TC. I am so grateful for your knowledge. You have increased my understanding. So, now we are back to The General and Unlimited Article V Convention state applications being dangerously close to qualifying for a Constitutional Convention that could also place on their agenda any of the other state applications. That is scary!
Well done, if that doesn't work as a wakeup call, I'm not sure what would.