Article V of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America:
(1) Upon the demand of any three States, legally assembled in their several conventions, the Congress shall summon a convention of all the States, to take into consideration such amendments to the Constitution as the said States shall concur in suggesting at the time when the said demand is made; and should any of the proposed amendments to the Constitution be agreed on by the said convention — voting by States — and the same be ratified by the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, or by conventions in two-thirds thereof — as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the general convention — they shall thenceforward form a part of this Constitution. But no State shall, without its consent, be deprived of its equal representation in the Senate.
This process for amending the Constitution is rather different from that in the US Constitution, from which most of the CS Constitution is borrowed. For reference:
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
Aside from the update in spelling and grammar conventions, the CS Article V cuts the Congress out of the process entirely, making it dependent upon state legislatures or conventions. Additionally, it takes only three states to call such a convention, effectively just over 1/4 of the states, and only 2/3 of all states must ratify, by convention or legislature, those amendments, as opposed to 3/4 under the US process.
Now, entrenched political interests in the CSA are a given, in a big way, but I found the idea that only three states were needed to call a convention.
So, a couple questions (under the heading of 'assuming some type of Confederate independence'):
1) What kind of amendments to the CS Constitution might be passed, or at least proposed?
2) How might this different process of amending the Constitution affect matters?
3) Just because three states can call a convention, does that mean all states have to send delegates? I am thinking not, so even if three state legislatures were to be held by some type of pro-reform/-amendment party, the other states could simply ignore the convention and refuse to send delegates, right?