Modern constitutional convention In the United States

Imagine that a constitutional convention was held in today's world. What would it be like?
 
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I see fist or gunfights breaking out over the second amendment and what exactly Separation of Church and State should mean. I also see a lot of campaigning for anti-abortion and anti-gay type clauses. I actually think that it would be a bit of a scary time because we have a lot more people willing to disagree violently now then we had in the late 18th century. A land of Libertarian Enlightenment Deists we are not.
 
Pretty much the above. It would likely be precipitated by some major constitutional crisis in from the old Constitution, so it would likely end up looking like a significantly different document than the old Constitution.

My guess is that it would be all that we would be talking about in my political science department.
 
How would members of such a Convention be chosen?

The current Constitution is silent. I guess that the precedant says appointment by state legislatures (which would be pretty bad considering how gerrymandered they are)

What would be required for it to propose a new constitution or amendments. Would it need to be unanimous, or at least have the support of all states, in which case it would be pointless, could it propose amendments by a simple majority

Would it vote by states?


Would states have equal votes or would they vote according to population?
 
This is a very interesting ATL. I am considering doing a similar one about what the US constitution would be like if it a new one had been draw up after WWII. What got me interested in that was something I was reading a while back, about how apart from the massive cultural differences between them, one of the reasons why European nations were far more left-wing that the US after WWII was that they had recently drawn up constitutions, whereas the US had one from the late 18th century. So the US constitution reflected classical liberal values but the European ones reflected social democratic values.

More to the point of this ATL, it is hard to tell what would be put in a modern constitution. Much would depend on how the convention delegates were chosen. If we instead have something like a 'Founding Fathers' situation, where there is a group of non-directly elected politicians and legal experts at the convention, then I can see them possibly being the modern version of the 'Libertarian Enlightenment Deists' (not literally but the modern version thereof). If they are more demoncratically elected, then this wouldn't be the case of course.
 
Such would be a disaster. Rightists would complain of underrepresentation, and leftists would claim something similar.
 
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