Commentary: Some ideas for a constitutional convention

Recently, Utah state Rep. Merrill Nelson renewed the call for a constitutional convention to amend the Constitution of the United States. And a Utah Senate committee recently passed SRJ 9, calling for such a convention.As the nation recovers from its third shutdown in under a year, Nelson argues that the federal government can be saved from its own dysfunction through an emergency intervention by all the states; an intervention hosted at an Article V Constitutional Convention.Historically, we at