There is a threat to our democracy so severe it is shocking it has gone unnoticed this long, or has been dismissed as impossible by the few who know about it and should be sounding the alarm. Given the current hyper-partisan environment of U.S. politics, the power of special and corporate interests in the post-시민연합 era, the call for a convention poses a huge threat to the nation.
Common Cause’s 2015 report “The Dangerous Path: Big Money’s Plan to Shred the Constitution” explores the dangerous calls for an Article V convention, who is behind it, and how Americans’ constitutional rights would be at risk.