Congress is mandated to create detailed rules of procedure for Constitutional and Ratification Conventions. No State shall have the power of Ratification; all ratifications will be by Convention. Here are the main points of the rules that Congress must incorporate into the detailed rules of procedure:
Congress may set the rules for calling a Convention by either of the Houses of Congress, by the States and by the Citizens through a referendum. A Convention shall be ordered to be convened after either of three events:
If a Convention is voted by 70% by both Houses of Congress,
If a Convention is voted by 60% of the States, the voting to be in a manner that the various States shall choose for themselves,
If a public Referendum receives a 55% vote by the Citizens voting and the vote is certified by the rules in the various States.
There must be a time limit on the process of calling for a Convention. For example, the referendum may take a year to organize but no longer else the call for a Convention fails. A similar time limit shall be mandated for the States to call for a Convention.
No State can retract its call for a convention during the time limit set by Congress.
No call for a Convention from the Citizens can be abrogated by any entity.
Congress must choose a location for the Conventions in the middle of the United States.
Congress must set a limit for duration of the Conventions. No Convention shall be permitted to sit longer than one year.
Congress must set rules for the structure of the Conventions and for the rules of procedure in the Conventions except as noted elsewhere in this Constitution.
Congress must set rules for qualifications of attendees.
Constitutional and Ratifying Convention delegates will be composed of one delegate per Representative district and at-large delegates for the State equaling the number of Senators in that state. Delegates may not be: lawyers, politicians, any government employee, no member of a special interest group, no member of a non-governmental organization devoted to lobbying the government, no person who does business with the government in any way. The idea is to choses delegates that have as little to do with government as possible but not Citizens who have no interest in politics. Any Citizen has standing to challenge the qualifications of any Citizen submitting their name to be a delegate. Congress will take care to provide for selecting alternate delegates in the event of sickness, death or some other disabling condition.
The Constitutional Convention must publish their proceedings every day and allow for feedback from the Citizens. Every viewpoint must be given a chance in the court of public opinion.
The Constitution will be published at the end of the Constitutional Convention. The Citizens will have three months from the end of the Constitutional Convention to the beginning of the Ratification Conventions to read the Constitution.
At the end of the three-month period, the delegates to the Ratifying Convention will be selected in open voting by the Citizens. This selection will be limited to one month.
Following the selection of the Ratification delegates will be a one-month period where the Citizens shall meet with their delegates in public meetings to express their concerns and reservations about the proposed amendments.
The Ratification Conventions shall convene five months after the closing of the Constitutional Convention.
Ratification will be by an approval of 2/3 of the States.
Following the Ratifying Convention, any approved amendment(s) will be implemented as instructed elsewhere in this Constitution.