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The U.S. Constitution has 27 amendments; each was proposed by Congress and ratified by the states.
However, the Constitution sets forth another procedure, never before used, for amending the Constitution. At the request of two thirds of the states, a constitutional convention would be held, at which amendments could be proposed. Any proposals would become part of the Constitution if three fourths of the states ratified them, either at state conventions or in the state legislatures.
Currently, 27 of the needed 34 states have petitioned Congress for a constitutional convention, for the ostensible purpose of writing a balanced-budget amendment (BBA). However, the convention might propose other changes in addition or instead of a BBA—even a total rewrite of the Constitution—if 38 states agreed, the changes would become law.
In November, legislators from 30 states met in Salt Lake City to discuss the matter.
- Forbes article from 2014 (mirror)
- John Birch Society (has a map)
- utahpolicy.com
- Deseret News
- Yellowhammer News
- The Universe—Brigham Young University
- San Francisco Chronicle
- KSTU-TV
- The Columbian
- Washington Post blog about historical attempts at constitutional conventions
- The Spokesman-Review
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Friday December 11 2015, @07:57AM
Notice well, or Nota Bene, my dear and precious Soylentils, who shows up to comment on this post, almost, just almost, as if by design? Could it be, perhaps, that there is a vast, or maybe a very tiny, right wing conspiracy afoot! What are they trying to achieve? What are their goals? And what do they have to do with Cliven Bundy, Ted Bundy, and Al Bundy! Are they all related? Is it a Mormon thing from having had too many mothers in the past and now St. George is crawling with Lost Boys from the Never-agreed-to-that-whole-end-of- polygamy-thing real Mormons? I don't know. But the whole thing is no more healthy than a summer camp of altar boys! If there is a god, I have no doubt that these bastards, the Mormons and the Catholics, will find themselves in a special hell. And even better, if there is no god, the bastards will never even ever find out how wrong they were! Ha ha! Because then, they are just as wrong now! Except they are having sex with children against their will. That part should stop. I mean, Constitutional Convention and all, alright, but just stop the pedophilia first, OK?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 11 2015, @08:10AM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Friday December 11 2015, @08:22AM
Let me guess, the John Birchers sponsored your latest post?
Well, in a crazy kind of reverse polarity Koch Bros. way, yes. More and more, I am seeing the rightwing madness emanating from two capitals: Riyadh, and Salt Lake City, Wahabhism and Mormonism. These are the theologies of our time? Now I am not all that sure about the connection to the John Birch Society, other than the two Koch Brothers and their fortune. But isn't this in itself enough to make any rational human worry? The wealth of Oil, and the Wealth of Oil in America, are conspiring to bring about the same political ends, by means of overwhelming economic force? Bend over, you libertarians! The religious fanatics are about to show you how it's done!
(Oh, and just because it is a conspiracy theory does not mean it is not true! As if I had to tell you that!)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 11 2015, @08:34AM
More and more, I am seeing the rightwing madness emanating from two capitals: Riyadh, and Salt Lake City, Wahabhism and Mormonism.
Sounds good to me. Distributed crazy is better than centralized crazy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @05:18PM
How about no crazy? That would work for me. Would that work for you?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 11 2015, @07:09PM
How about no crazy? That would work for me. Would that work for you?
You can't get rid of the crazy. I think it's something like the uncertainty principle.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @12:03PM
What is it about SoylentNews that attracts schizophrenics? Even most of Ethanol-Fueled's comments are more coherent than this drivel.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tibman on Friday December 11 2015, @02:45PM
There is a correlation between websites' use of javascript and paranoia levels. Less than 20 lines attracts people who are already paranoid and greater than 500 lines causes paranoia.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @04:53PM
Soylent loads approx. 20KiB of scripts. Is that enough to be paranoid about?
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday December 11 2015, @06:49PM
Hah, you're right. Just checked it out and there is an xpath library that is 9.4KB (used for manipulating elements on the page) and the collapsible comments bit is surprising large at 6.2KB. Though it is optional javascript.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @10:24PM
Soylent loads approx. 20KiB of scripts
Not for me. (I don't even see that in my list of blocked stuff.)
The only non-text thing I bother to download here is star.png in order to see who is a donor (and wants to advertise that).
N.B. If link text (e.g. an asterisk) was used with those (listening paule72|Buzzard?), that star would work in text-only browsers|configurations.
I see nothing missing due to not allowing JavaScript.
The only things I miss are:
1) Long URLs are not folded at the right edge of the page (formerly done in HTML via whitespace).
2) When someone marks text with the quote pseudotag (instead of the standard blockquote tag), that is not differentiated from normal text for me.
Those 2 things are in a stylesheet.
-- gewg_