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by seanmcdirmid 239 days ago
That's why I premised this with "If America survives at all". There is definitely a possibility that the whole country just falls apart. A constitutional convention is more of a best case scenario.

Gerrymandering is only relevant for congressional house elections, it can't protect the senate and doesn't influence the presidency. Usually one party will take control of all three branches in a huge swing in power, the house is the just the first to flip usually because it is re-elected every 2 years.
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JumpCrisscross 239 days ago
> constitutional convention is more of a best case scenario

Constitutional Convention is the abort button. It means giving a group of people basically limitless power to amend our Constitution, which in practice, means to do anything to the law. If we called one today, with most states in Republican hands [1], we’d be essentially handing complete control of our government—over and above the Constitution—to the GOP.

[1] https://www.ncsl.org/about-state-legislatures/state-partisan...

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dragonwriter 239 days ago
> Constitutional Convention is the abort button. It means giving a group of people basically limitless power to amend our Constitution

No, it doesn’t.

It gives a group of people basically limitless power to propose Amendments to the Constitution.

Any Amendments so proposed still require 3/4 of states to ratify them, either by votes of their legislature or by ratification conventions called in the states (at the option of Congress when calling the Convention at the request of states.)

Unless by "group of people" you mean not just the people in the national convention, but the people in the state legislatures or conventions, as well. But, at that point, you might as well say that by including an amendment process, the Constitution itself “gives a group of people basically limitless power to amend our Constitution”.

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JumpCrisscross 239 days ago
> It gives a group of people basically limitless power to propose Amendments to the Constitution

Sorry, I actually missed this. Thank you for clarifying. (I mixed it up with the New York State process, where the Convention's proposals go straight to popular ratification.)

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