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Another question of mine considering what it did to us already is if there ever was a convention how would anybody be able to stop special intrest and lobbiests from hijacking it |
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It depends on how it is organized. This is actually something that could probably be put into the convention call, which should take the form of identical state legislative resolutions and state how delegates will be chosen from each state. It also depends on what you mean by special interests. If you mean supporters of the current regime who exist within a partisan frame of reference, I suspect that there is no chance of doing this. Delegates can be elected or appointed. Either way, they will likely come from the current crop of Democratic and Republican Party activists who serve on city/county/congressional district/state party committees. This will be the case if you elect them or if the state governor appoints them. I see no possibility that an "organic" convention can be called that is free of these people. It would be far easier to create a new majority party or to hijack a party that already exists and commit them to enacting the reforms that you want. A convention itself is not the holy grail - it is but a means to reform. The key is to sell the reforms you want - although they must be significant enough to require a constitutional change. If they merely involve something that can happen through a change in statute than an Article V Convention is probably not the tool you want to use. |