I think the fundamental problem with "a new Constitutional Convention" is that there's no way to keep it from being staffed by the current folk. And even if we

I think the fundamental problem with "a new Constitutional Convention" is that there's no way to keep it from being staffed by the current folk. And even if we can go around Congress, what's to stop the corporations from buying off the state legislatures? It would take a majority in one house each in 13 states to block any amendment, which isn't that much when you realize state campaigns are loads cheaper. And any sort of convention would have to entertain "take away guns" amendments from the left and "ban abortions" amendments from the right. They'd spend so much more time fighting about those things than on the stuff like reducing corporate power or making the Congress suck less.