Is A New Constitutional Convention Around the Corner? | Civics Made Easy

State legislators and members of congress serve on the same local party committees. There is no incentive for them to really call a convention. Forget term limits.

The agenda to undo the civil law related to the Constitution is profoundly reactionary, while the balanced budget amendment is essentially the minority party protection amendment because the work around requires that running a deficit happen only when an adequate number of votes exists - more than any majority party usually has.

Congress has no rules for dealing with convention calls. Do they expire with each Congress or are calls permanent? The rules do not say and need to be clarified. Must they be on a single issue or are they plenary in nature? Again, Congress needs to clarify this in its rules. Currently, with no rule, Congress can ignore calls under the political question doctrine. They cannot limit what a convention talks about - so the Congress, at a minimum (and a maximum) specify that all convention calls from the states run out at the end of each Congress. This provides the  certainty needed to actually call a convention - although it raises a high bar.

As for likely amendments (convention or not), expect in the future the creation of regional vice presidents directly elected, the creation of regional legislatures and a national caucus which - with the regional VPs - elects the President and Vice President, a provision allowing different value added tax rates for each region (which can be used to limit taxing and spending in the region- with a regional balanced budget requirement that requires national caucus approval to breach) and a provision to add regions to the Union - with an end to the requirement for natural born citizenship and specifying that regions must acknowledge the nature of individual rights as inalienable to be admitted.

Finally, unless America first transitions from capitalist speculation to large scale employee ownership and economic cooperation, an ever increasing national debt is essential for liquidity. The nation can either borrow from rich people and pay them back with interest - allowing them to use their bonds as leverage for other investment - or we can simply tax it away from them, pay down the debt and redistribute some of this taxation to people who will consume the money rather than save it.