What if... ?
Clare Hedin, co-founder of the group California Constitutional Convention (a.k.a. Cal Con Con), is confident of a convention in the not-too-distant future. Up to 28 states have already called for one (“up to” because some states’ resolutions are old or disputed), including a dozen states since 2010, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive think tank. It’s “well on its way to happening,” Hedin says. A state ballot initiative outlining talking points for a convention, she and her colleagues are convinced, is the most effective way to push their left-wing agenda, which includes:
Congressional term limits
Abolishing the Electoral College
Lowering the voting age to 16
Making state taxes primary, with federal taxes secondary and negotiable
Ensuring that every taxpayer has a voting member of Congress and gets to vote in presidential elections (welcome news, no doubt, for citizens of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, the US Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC)
