WHEREAS, A constitutional convention easily could become a “runaway” body which could propose alterations to the entire Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and
WHEREAS, Thirty-one of the required thirty-four states have now passed resolutions petitioning Congress to call, for various reasons, a constitutional convention, and
WHEREAS, Neither the Constitution nor the law establishes procedures for the calling of a constitutional convention and does not set limitations on the range of subjects that such convention could consider.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the Southern Baptist Convention in its 1982 meeting in New Orleans direct the attention of Baptists in the several states to the dangers inherent in a national constitutional convention.