I got into a conversation with a proponent of the “Convention of States” this week. If you are not aware, the writers of the Constitution left us two routes to amend our law of the land. Either Congress can initiate the process, or the people can work through their state legislatures to do it. The latter process is the one the Convention of states proponents have decided is the answer to fixing what is wrong with the US Government. A few years back, the Georgia legislature enacted a law in favor of the Convention of States, and more have approved the idea since. It takes 2/3 of the states to hold a CoS and 3/4 of the states to ratify any amendment that might result from its workings.
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Convention of States, a Bad Idea
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I got into a conversation with a proponent of the “Convention of States” this week. If you are not aware, the writers of the Constitution left us two routes to amend our law of the land. Either Congress can initiate the process, or the people can work through their state legislatures to do it. The latter process is the one the Convention of states proponents have decided is the answer to fixing what is wrong with the US Government. A few years back, the Georgia legislature enacted a law in favor of the Convention of States, and more have approved the idea since. It takes 2/3 of the states to hold a CoS and 3/4 of the states to ratify any amendment that might result from its workings.