An interesting piece in The New Republic about state constitutional conventions — arguing that we should have more of them, at least at the state level. I would worry that there would be partisan problems with such a thing, with “Democratic” and “Republican” proposals to amend the Constitutions. That might be inevitable; there were “parties” even back in Philadelphia in 1787 in the sense that there were various schools of thought that formed into voting blocs. But, I would also welcome the demotion of things like usury laws and fishing regulations to a more appropriate sort of place in the legislative scheme of things.
