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Why a rulebook?

The Constitution gives two ways to propose an amendment. Only one has ever been used.

Path one Congress proposes 27 amendments ratified
Path two The states call a convention 0 conventions ever held

Questions nobody has answered.

Who picks the delegates? How many per state? One vote per state, or per delegate? What vote passes a proposal? Who keeps it on topic? Open doors, or closed? Can a state recall its delegates?

Article V doesn’t say. Congress never has.

Skeptics won’t start. Supporters can’t finish.

“There is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a constitutional Convention.”
Chief Justice Warren Burger, 1988
“Due to the possibility of a runaway convention and the other uncertainties, state legislatures are exceedingly unlikely to apply.”
Michael Rappaport, Virginia Law Review, 2010
The fix

Write the rules before anyone knows the amendment.

Then they can’t be rigged for one.

Who writes them? →