&gt; I don&#x27;t know. If the convention had to get it past the states, then they couldn&#x27;t do anything too crazy, even if they totally rewrote it.<p>Again, the Constitution itself is an example of why this may not be reliable: The original Constitutional Convention was called to propose revisions to the Article of Confederation, which required such changes to be adopted <i>unanimously</i> by the state legislatures. When it ended up proposing throwing the whole thing out and starting over, the new Constitution it proposed <i>also</i> had a different standard for passage -- requiring only <i>nine</i> of the states to ratify the new Constitution before it went into effect.<p>People are afraid of a Constitutional Convention arbitrarily rewriting the rules independently of the governing authority <i>because that&#x27;s exactly what the only one we&#x27;ve had did</i>.