Press Register by LUTHER MUNFORD 2/17/2022
Anyone who thinks the Convention of the States is a good idea should ask the people of ancient Troy what they thought of the nice gift wooden horse the Greeks left outside their gates. Grateful, the Trojans brought it into their city. Then the Greek soldiers hidden inside jumped out and sacked the town.
The Mississippi legislature has passed a resolution calling for a convention of the states to rewrite the U.S. Constitution. Although the resolution states certain vague objectives, to which some now would like to add term limits, the first point to consider is that those objectives will not necessarily control what the convention will do. It should be remembered that the delegates to our first constitutional convention in 1787 were called “for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation.” But when they gathered they promptly threw out the whole document and started afresh. The American Legislative Exchange Council, which favors a Convention of the States to limit the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices, advocates a resolution restricting the purpose of a convention, but there is no precedent for that.
The second point to consider is the danger that the Constitution might be amended by representatives elected by a very small number of voters. To understand this, it is worth comparing the two different ways of amending the constitution.
The first way, and the one that has always been used in the past, is for an amendment to be approved by a three-fourths vote in both houses of Congress and then ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the states.
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