It almost certainly involves Article V, but likely not in the trivial "amend Article V to change the 2/3 supermajority to propose an amendment to a simple major

It almost certainly involves Article V, but likely not in the trivial "amend Article V to change the 2/3 supermajority to propose an amendment to a simple majority and eliminate the requirement for 3/4 of states to ratify" sense. That would never actually be ratified as states would be loathe to give up their power. My guess is it would first involve the creation of a considerable number of new states under Article IV and then proceed to amend Article V as above by enlisting the newly created states. The part I can't quite explain is how those states get created without dividing an existing state which requires the consent of that state's legislature. Edit: Really, the more that I think about it, the ability of Congress to create new states by simple legislative action (so long as the territory does not come from existing states) IS almost certainly the loophole. Every new state, no matter how small, gets 1 Congressman and 2 Senators. Create enough, and you control both houses of Congress. Since the EC vote is determined by number of Congressmen + the number of Senators by state, you'd also control the Presidency. Since the number of SCOTUS justices can be changed by simple legislation, you'd now control all 3 branches of government. At that point, using Article V to amend Article V just becomes the final icing on the cake. Edit 2: DC is not a state, and so would not be subject to Article IV constraints on making new states from existing ones. Article I Section 8 gives Congress complete jurisdiction over DC. Reserve a portion of DC as the US Capital, divide the remainder into 150 new states. I think I just found Gödel's Loophole. Or maybe I'm just "a nerd trying to solve law" as someone else posted, that's entirely possible.