My mistake

I have to apologize and correct myself, upon further investigation into Article V Applications for Convention of States there have been 370 instead of the 788 I failed my due diligence and counted all applications instead of the accepted Applications for that I apologize.. 

In an article posted by Larry Reams in the Patriot Post on Feb. 16 of this year, he stipulates the following;

“Historically, since 1788 when records began being kept, there have been @370 state applications for a convention. Every state except Hawaii has filed at least one application. Some were subsequently withdrawn, some were acted on by Congress without the convention process by proposing / passing new amendments. Since 2000, there have been 22 official applications mostly dealing with the debt and a balanced budget. Throughout history the issue

prompting the applications to be submitted has run the gamut depending on the “hot” issue in that state at that point in time. None have had the requisite number of states to hold the convention.”

Now if this is true as Mr. Reams has posted it seems that the apprehensions of the “Constitution” being put on the chopping block are somewhat exaggerated in their content.

“Our Constitution is a model for the world. We were not a divided nation in 1787. We are divided today, deeply so and by design. Divide and conquer is a strategy of the progressive movement and it has worked. This divisiveness may reinforce the argument against a run away convention. It may also guarantee that nothing whatsoever gets accomplished. That the convention attendees can’t even come together on a single issue, let along Levin’s eleven proposals. But there are “back room deals” nowadays. “You scratch my back I’ll scratch yours.” Call me a skeptic but I don’t trust politicians today, even supposed independent, bipartisan delegates from the populace at large, to come together in a process that has never been done in our 230 year history, and under such divisiveness as we have today.”

And there is a way to get that control before the Article V Convention gavels in the first meeting. It’s called the Madison Amendment a safety feature of the Article V Application which states;

The Congress, on Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, which all contain an identical Amendment, shall call a Convention solely to decide whether to propose that specific Amendment to the States, which, if proposed shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified pursuant to Article V.”

In other words, an open-ended convention is never called. A convention is called only to propose one specific amendment and nothing more. Therefore, the Madison Amendment, if proposed by Congress and ratified by 38 states, would become the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. From that point forward states could call Article V conventions whenever so desired, to propose only one amendment to the Constitution. That stops a “run away” convention in it’s tracks.

Ever since Mark Levin’s book came out advocating the convention, with his proposed 11 amendments, there’s been a stampede to have the states correct some of our many ills. Those proposals are as follows;

The eleven amendments proposed by Levin:[3][4]

1. Impose Congressional term limits
2. Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment
3. Impose term limits for Supreme Court Justices and restrict judicial review
4. Require a balanced budget and limit federal spending and taxation
5. Define a deadline to file taxes (one day before the next federal election)
6. Subject federal departments and bureaucratic regulations to reauthorization and review
7. Create a more specific definition of the Commerce Clause
8. Limit eminent domain powers
9. Allow states to more easily amend the Constitution
10. Create a process where two-thirds of the states can nullify federal laws
11. Require photo ID to vote and limit early voting
    

These as seen in accordance to the Madison Amendment, are suggested proposals and would only be approved once received by the Legislatures of each State proposing Amendments, through the works of a committee that would review the proposals, all proposals that carry the same intent would be grouped as a single proposal and be rewritten in new language to reflect the intent and purpose of such a proposal, that proposal shall be endorsed by the legislature and sent to the Congress as an Application for Convention of States once the Convention is called under the singular purpose of the amendment being ratified by the 38 states necessary to make it and Amendment to the Constitution, there is no chance for a “Runaway Convention” to run roughshod and make an attempt to restructure the whole Constitution.

Defining the intent and purpose of proposed Amendments is what a Convention of States is about, clarification of harnessing a runaway government by curtailing abuses of power was something thought of by the Founding Fathers and they made provisions for dealing with such abuses.

If we do have this authority as outlined in the “Constitution” then when these abuses are evident, it becomes incumbent on the citizenry of the United States to exercise that power and put the government back in the hands of the people be that through a Single Item Convention of States or a Identified Multiple Items Convention.