WILL NOT BE A RUN AWAY CONVENTION - Progressives Fake News!
Guess what, the idea of a convention being a runaway event is based on rumors, started by, wait for it... LIBERALS!!
The story of a run-a-way convention is a myth, based on rumors. Academics have looked into the issue and found that there is more evidence that conventions aren't likely to runaway than that they are. This myth never appeared for a century after the Constitutional Convention until the 1960s.
“You may have heard alarms that if we hold a national convention for proposing constitutional amendments the gathering would be an uncontrollable constitutional convention (“con-con”) that could propose anything at all.”
“The claim is called the “runaway scenario.” It has almost no basis in history or law.”
“Biggerstaff concludes that this was why the runaway convention fiction suddenly emerged from nowhere during the 1960s. In his view, “generating unwarranted fear of the Article V convention process was a ploy introduced by progressives as a way to prevent states from countering progressives’ use of judicial activism.”
“After consulting with the top experts, we’ve concluded that the arguments for runaway convention are without merit and not supported by the evidence. Exhibit A in this discussion is America’s very long and documented history of conventions. In the hundreds of state and interstate conventions that have taken place here in the founding era and beyond, none have ever run away. On rare occasions a delegate would suggest departing from the agenda, but that person would get nowhere because checks and balances were built-in, as they are here. A common internet meme calling the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 a runaway is based on poor scholarship. The false narrative goes like this: Convention delegates only had the authority to amend the Articles of Confederation (America’s first Constitution), but ignored that and threw the Articles on the scrap heap. Hence, it’s said they jumped over their boundaries and ran outside the law. In reality, 10 of the 12 state delegations at that convention had broad authority which included the ability to adopt a new Constitution.This was made explicit by the instructions their states gave them.”
“Those speculations simply overlook the last two decades of research into the background and subsequent history of the Constitution's amendment process. They also ignore how that process actually has worked, and how the courts elucidate it.”
