What are your thoughts on the potential benefits and dangers of a new Constitutional Convention?

Question

The Constitutional Convention in 1787 was billed as a meeting to amend and improve the Articles of Confederation. But several of the political elites of the time had a vastly different idea: They discarded the Articles and wrote an entirely new document that we still live under today - The Constitution.

The Constitution has a provision for convening a Constitutional Convention. There are no specific guidelines for such a gathering and, theoretically, the members could discard the Constitution and start all over again, as in 1787.

What are your thoughts on the potential benefits and dangers of a new Constitutional Convention?

Answer 1

The major opposition to a 2nd Convention is that that Convention would have no limitations on the changes they could make. They could repeal the Bill of Rights, change representation in the House of Representatives, etc. Therefore, if change is wanted/needed to the Constitution the safest method would be to use the process that has been utilized most frequently: the Congress votes on a proposed amendment, of approved it then goes to the states for ratification.