Concerned about a 'runaway convention'?
[Excerpt from The News & Observer]
Nancy MacLean, a professor of history and public policy at Duke University, said the most organized or best funded delegations might be able to steer a convention. She said holding a convention could be opening Pandora’s box.
“It’s inviting the whirlwind to hold one of these things, especially at a time when the country is so divided and polarized,” said MacLean, whose new book “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America” is among Oprah’s 20 books to read this summer. “The people that are pushing these conventions say that they believe in the American Constitution, yet they want to change the American Constitution significantly.”
Proposed amendments would have to be ratified by 38 state legislatures before they become part of the Constitution – a requirement that Jones has argued would prevent any unpopular amendments from passing.
