JD1965
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It may also depend on what the States want to accomplish. Is there any existing method to accomplish something similar?
In 2010, during the 110th Congress, the Tea Party Congress read the Constitution first day from the floor of the House. Before reading, sponsor Goodlatte from Virginia noted that because the Constitution had been amended, members would be reading what the Congressional Research Service deemed valid. They skipped over the convention clause of Article V, did not read it. Then in 2012 the CRS issued a two-part white paper all about the Article V Convention. So how is it that the CRS is at once telling members of Congress not to read the convention clause, and two years later writing a paper all about it?
That paper has been updated multiple times, most recently 2017: http://www.foavc.org/reference/R44435_20171115.pdf
That paper spawned a rule which has the House now officially counting state applications and posting them as PDFs, Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives: Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
But most importantly, over the past five years, in the comment section to blogs and op-eds focused on the Article V Convention, it has gone from roughly 75% against a convention, to today where it's roughly 75% for a convention. I believe the above is evidence that indeed, if enough people want it, we will get the call.
Seems to me, anyone who genuinely reveres and cares for what was won with the Americans Revolution would be out on the internet talking up Article V, assuring people there's virtually no danger in a non-binding deliberative assembly, when anything discussed must still be ratified by 75%+ (a political principle that mathematically precludes partisan nonsense from becoming high law: any idea must get all one side of the political spectrum signed on, plus at least half the other, or it goes where 10,000+ other proposed amendments have gone--the dustbin of history).
For fun, maybe post a poll about it. There are still many folks on this site who are not operatives, that still believe a federal convention is dangerous.
This site has tons of info: Page One