> Not only would this be perfectly legal, I consider it an excellent idea.
An excellent idea in the abstract sense of hey, that's a really clever way to update the constitution, or an excellent idea in the sense of the politicians operating in America today can be trusted to update the constitution properly so let's do that? Only one of those isn't totally crazy...
And not only the politicians, but every lobbyist and lawyer and judge in the land would want a crack at changing things to their vision of a better Constitution.
A Constitutional Convention is basically opening up one heck of a can of worms. Because remember, a Constitutional Convention gets full power to try and rewrite almost ANYTHING.
In neither sense, because a popular movement to replace the Constitution could only succeed by replacing the existing legislature with one which is amenable to such a course of action.
It's far-fetched, I readily concede that. But it has a lot to recommend it, the very act of proposing and bringing to reality a Constitutional Convention would be a powerful engine of change, with a better-than-even chance we'd end up with a better system than we have now.
An excellent idea in the abstract sense of hey, that's a really clever way to update the constitution, or an excellent idea in the sense of the politicians operating in America today can be trusted to update the constitution properly so let's do that? Only one of those isn't totally crazy...