Concerns over the risks of an Article V convention have led to nearly universal opposition on the left. But a growing number of progressive scholars are asking whether it's wise to take the convention option off the table.
Over the past few decades, conservative activists have patiently set their sights on organizing the first constitutional convention since 1787, invoking a never-used provision of the Constitution that allows 34 of the 50 state legislatures to summon a convention for the purpose of proposing changes to our national charter.
A parallel effort, launched in 2014, has an even more extreme aim. The so-called Convention of States project, endorsed by 19 states, envisions multiple amendments limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government. Amendments abolishing the income tax and narrowing Congress's regulatory powers would be just the start.
For years, understandable concerns over the risks of an Article V convention have led to nearly universal opposition on the left. But now, a growing number of progressive scholars and reformers are asking whether it's wise to take the convention option off the table completely, particularly given the dim prospects for change in a Congress that has dragged its feet on democracy reform.
One reason to be cautiously open to the Article V route is a convention's potential prodding effect on Congress. The saga of the Seventeenth Amendment, which established the direct election of U.S. senators by voters in each state, provides some inspiration. We celebrate the measure today as a critical advance in the march of American democracy, wresting the power to elect senators from state legislatures and giving it directly to the people.
refused to consider the measure, until the credible threat of an Article V convention finally forced a vote.
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