@55 Peter Boston: Thanks for that excellent clarification of how things will likely go. I appreciate the notion that the Supreme Courts of States might defy SCOTUS. That indeed would be a Constitutional crisis.

But I also agree with the cautions regarding an Article V Convention. The risks are far greater than the remedies unless public opinion has so strongly been mobilized as to assure that the Convention would be dominated by “the good guys.” Since the professional political corps is overwhelmingly tilted toward the left, I doubt this will happen.

The left has a permanent structural advantage in politics. Their best and brightest think that politics is an excellent way to pursue their career. The right and the center think that working in the private sector, or doing their “good works” in Churches, Synagogues, and community organizations is the best way to pursue their careers and lives. So their best will go into politics and our best will be business men and women, doctors, dentists, and shop keepers.

The generation of the Founding Fathers was extremely unusual and the factors that made it possible are no longer extant.

I like the idea of IC’s and think it is an extremely creative way to shake things up and put the question of statism vs. distributed decentralized government back on the map. But an Article V Convention is far riskier than its proponents accept.