Reply #1: Not with the right wing nuts in charge! GAAACK! [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

There are no Constitutional provisions for what a Constitutional convention would consist of. It would be whatever the most powerful faction wanted it to be, and technically, everything, including the Bill of Rights, would be up for elimination.

If the neocons and/or the Dominionists were in the majority, they could turn this country into a fascist theocracy, and we wouldn't even be able to claim it was unconstitutional.

The very thought gives me the creeps.

Let me repeat: There is no set procedure for such a convention. It would be whatever the participants wanted it to be. The wingnuts could take over the convention and turn this country into a full-blown, no-holds-barred fascist theocracy, and it would be totally legal.

The way to go would be by individual amendment, which would have to be ratified by 2/3 of the states. This tedious process may keep some good amendments out (ERA), but it also prevents the real stinkers from being written into the Constitution (in the 1970s, there was a serious move at a Constitutional amendment to ban busing for racial integration).