People should know that interest groups on the right and left have long opposed using what the Founders gave us in Article V, namely a convention of state delegates that can propose constitutional amendments, and clearly Congress has refused to convene the first convention despite over 700 state applications because they too fear reform amendments.
The idea of a mock convention is just a delay tactic; people who want their country back should join the many efforts to get the first real convention; learn more at foavc.org.
Exactly what do you hope to achieve? What are your specific goals? What parts of the Constitution would you change, how, and why?
EDITOR: Certainly campaign financing reform placing strict limits on amounts of contributions. Possibly universal health care. Perhaps elimination of the Electoral College.
We suspect a truly representative mock Second Constitutional Convention would prove valuable in stimulating discussion and preparing for an actual convention.
Even the proposals of a real convention would be subject to ratification by 75% of the states.
What seems so extraordinary to us was expected to take place periodicly by the founders.
The very prospect of such a convention might bring about valuable reforms.