Petition for a Constitutional Convention

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Friendly reminder that this - was this brought up before? had no idea people were calling for a Con Con and I'm unsure what the actual goals are -requires 182 signatures.

Barring a mass call for zombie signatures, it would be easier to have all three regional legislatures call for a Convention.

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I'm usually not on Yankee's side on constitutional reforms - to put it mildly -, but there's a lot of merit in the idea that something like a Constitutional Convention is not something to be done on a whim or without a clear idea of what one wants to accomplish.

I would dispute the point of being "better off negotiating with Congress" given the historic reluctance to embrace meaningful or drastic constitutional changes and the sheer difficulty to muster the required quorum with legislators, but at the same time, it's important that there's clarity on whether such a Con Con would seek to address very specific issues (in which case the idea of going to Congress makes more sense), or whether it is intended to make larger changes into the constitutional framework of the game, in which case calling for one makes a lot more sense.

All in all, having a public debate - here, not in Discord - and more importantly, having proposals (like Talleyrand's) of the problems people or parties can identify, and the solutions they believe are best, is what truly matters. If one can have a more transparent public debate and have a clearer idea of the intentions or aspirations behind this, it will be to our collective benefit and/or clarify whether a Con Con is actually needed (it may well be, a lot of things aren't working) or not.