“A Constitutional Convention could really open up a can of worms — there’s no constitutional mechanism to limit the delegates to a specific topic no matter how much the legislatures think they can,” explained liberty-minded Republican New Hampshire Rep. Tim Comerford, who introduced the resolution. “The only other convention the U.S. has ever had was a runaway convention that was meant to amend the Articles of Confederation. They created a whole new Constitution, and while we got a good Constitution, I don’t think we’d get anything good these days; it’d become a lobbyist free-for-all.”

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