The New BBA Con-Con Threat
A Balanced Budget Amendment Article V convention would be a threat to the Constitution because of its inherent power to be a runaway convention, and the tendency of a BBA to move our nation from a republic to a democracy.
[President Wilson] began to speak of a flexible or fluid constitution in contradistinction to a rigid one. He thought that constitutions changed without the text being altered, and cited our own as an example.
— Recorded by Colonel E.M. House, November 7, 1914, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House, 1926
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