Friends Of the Article V Convention

Party interest is placed before public interest - EXCEPT that both major parties believe (with good reason) that they are acting in the public interest.  Unless you are willing to violate their rights to freedom of association, the existence of congressional district partisan committees pretty much destroy the key assumption required for an Article V convention - that state assembly members will work to diminish the power of their congressional members.  Because they draw from the same population of voters, most of them will be on the same page legislatively, so the movement for an Article V convention must either capture one of the parties or create a new party around a set of common constitutional reform principles.  This is easier than it sounds - especially if the GOP self destructs.