The phrase "amendment convention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about constitutional changes or legal processes involving amendments.
Example: "The state legislature is considering calling an amendment convention to propose changes to the constitution."
Alternatives: "constitutional convention" or "amendment assembly".
No "amendment convention" has taken place since the Constitution was written over 200 years ago.
Most recent state resolutions calling for an amendment convention are inspired by four national advocacy campaigns.
Those in favor talk about an "amendment convention," implying that only one amendment will be discussed.
There hasn't been, until now, another concerted attempt to organize an amendment convention.
And there's a reason why Congress hasn't made the changes that people pushing for an amendment convention want.
Opponents of an amendment convention have also been lobbying state lawmakers, citing a competing set of legal arguments.
That's the premise of recent calls by Senator Marco Rubio and Texas Governor Greg Abbott for an Article V amendments convention, at which they intend to propose constitutional amendments to limit the federal government's size and scope.
The ban was adopted as an amendment to the Convention in 1995, but a disagreement, about how it would be translated in law, left it inactive for years.
In 2009 Bolivia, where a new constitution protects coca as part of the country's cultural heritage, proposed an amendment to the convention that would remove the obligation to prohibit traditional uses of coca.
Energetic, seemingly healthy, yet limited by the Twenty-second Amendment and the convention of rhetorical discretion, Clinton felt that he had two options: "You can sit there and feel sorry that you're not President anymore, or you can find some way to use what you know, and who you know, and what you know about how to do things, and go out there and do all the good you can.
Regardless of what convention, amendment or declaration you care to choose, there is a very broad and encompassing feeling of freedom on the Internet, unless you happen to live in China.
