A Process That Has Not Been Used In Earnest Since 1971.

The amendment process specified in Article V has been used twenty-seven times, the last in 1992 — a procedural correction held in reserve since 1789. It has not been used to address a substantive structural problem in more than half a century. The proposal here is itself a constitutional amendment: it lowers the ratification threshold from thirty-eight states to thirty-four, establishes two convention types including a mandatory general-review convention every twenty-four years, and creates a Deliberative Convention Model with lottery-selected citizen delegates, presenter accountability bonds, and GAO manipulation safeguards. Together these changes are designed so that the process the framers built remains usable by the country they built it for, and resistant to capture by the parties most likely to manipulate it.