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CAVEAT: This article, "List of State Applications for an Article V Convention" from the title on down seems to be heavily influenced by FOAVC and it appears to be by wikipedia's choice. Friends of an Article V Convention (FOAVC) and Van Sickle-Boughey Classification are bogus. The Classification is only a ruse to make it appear that every application for an amendment is an application for a convention. Because they ignore the fact that:

NONE of the existing 27 Amendments required a convention. The first 10 (The Bill of RIghts) and the remaining 17 were all initiated by the Congress of the United States, and ratified by the states in the manner that Congress determined under Article V.

This article should be entitled "List of State Applications for Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of 1789,"

Because of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence a Convention has the power to change our form of government. Just as the first Convention did. It was called by the 7th Congress of the Confederation on the first day it convened, 2 Feb 1787. The delegates once convened with a quorum made up the rules of the convention. They determined not to do what they were convened for. They met in secret. They changed the existing rules for ratification. They WERE brilliant, anti-tyranny, patriotic, dedicated to the sovereignty of the individual and the states in control of a weak central government, and God-fearing, humble men. They didn't give us a democracy, but a democratic Republic. If we can keep it. Legislators who are members of FOAVC and proponents of Convention of States (COS) are not keeping their oaths to the Constitution.