The second result is the potential natural outcome as stated in the Convention's purpose, to continue until Congress is compelled to call one. However, if history is to be an indication of the potential outcome, we can justifiably assume that Congress will not act. Therefore the results become less predictable. If the convention goes unabated, it must depend on the number of participants and others supporters, until such a point when that number is large enough to justify any of various courses of action:
1. There maybe enough states which allow plebiscites or citizens' propositions to be inserted into their regular elections. If the numbers are large enough, many states will see propositions for the creation of Conventional delegations.
2. If these are not sufficient, the states which do not present delegates will find enough challenges to the State's refusal to cooperate, by the testing of legal concepts in the courts. There are explicit legal ways through which a convention can be called. There are other legally implied, and significantly plausible, amongst which is the "Popular Convention." I quote from a constitutional Amendments site:
Framer James Wilson, however, endorsed popular amendment, and the topic is examined at some length in Akhil Reed Amar's book, The Constitution: A Biography.
The notion of popular amendment comes from the conceptual framework of the Constitution. Its power derives from the people; it was adopted by the people; it functions at the behest of and for the benefit of the people. Given all this, if the people, as a whole, somehow demanded a change to the Constitution, should not the people be allowed to make such a change? As Wilson noted in 1787, "... the people may change the constitutions whenever and however they please. This is a right of which no positive institution can ever deprive them." http://www.usconstitution.net/constam.html#people
Other legal approaches are available, and would surely be taken up if it becomes rational to do so.
The On-line Convention, because it is rooted in the proverbial placement of your money where your heart is, has the power of conviction and dedication required to make fundamental changes, to re-establish the principles of the Declaration of Independence. It has the power to lay the foundation to resolve myriad of problems currently pursued with limited success by hundreds of thousands of activist citizens.
The convention will make clear that, while those who would destroy our principles keep us divided by labeling our positions, the astronomical majority of citizens stand behind the principles which brought about the birth of our nation in the first place, to find at the opposite side, only those whose intentions towards the survival of our nation are questionable. There are underlying principles that are held in common by Americans, whether liberal, conservative, republican, right, left, center, progressive, socialist, independents, or whatever ideology one may see oneself associated with.
All citizens are invited to become delegates, have their voice heard in the remaking of our nation. http://www.convusa.com/ . You're welcome to sign up today.
Nick Polimeni
Delegate, Nevada
Thomas E. Brennan: Former trial and appellate judge. Youngest Chief Justice in Michigan history. Founder, now retired Dean and President of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, the largest accredited college of law in the United States.
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