[TheRealThing]

The overwhelming majority of state governments are controlled by Republicans. They would control the agenda of a Convention of States, not liberals. A Convention of States is a constitutional path to amending the Constitution and I trust the individual states, each of which would have one vote, to amend the Constitution more than I trust Congress and the President. In the end, states must ratify the amendments either way.

In the end IMHO, we would all be pretty surprised at the outcome. Washington actually attended the original constitutional convention, a fact which I believe gives him a tremendous advantage, as his advice was given to all in retrospect. Like executive orders rammed down the throats of one party or another, or one group or another, the next successive unfriendly administration could just whisk it all away in another Convention of States.

We couldn't control the outcome or the struggle with any degree of certainty. Or maybe Washington had it all wrong. My eggs are in his basket.