Con - Con

I am concerned about a little known but yet grave threat to the American Constitution and our Republican government and that is the looming possibility of a constitutional convention to be held next year. It appears that Republican legislators are on the forefront of opening the convention which would have as much power as the convention held by the founding fathers in which the present constitution was created and then ratified. The Republicans want the convention, in which anything in the constitution could be changed or thrown out, in order to create a balanced budget clause.

This is a good cause but it is not worth the risk of opening the constitution up to the whims of today's legislators. Our government officials today couldn't hang off the shoe laces of our founding fathers and not one of them should be entrusted with the responsibility of tampering with the constitution. Yet those who want the convention are only 2 states away from ratification. This is indeed a grave threat.