“The founders knew what was likely to happen. In fact, George Mason, one of the founding fathers, insisted on including the wording of Article V that allowed for the states to be able to impose amendments,” Faulkenberry said.

“He said there will come a time when the federal government would get too big, too unresponsive, too far away from the people, too removed from their duties, too powerful and too full of themselves that they won’t care what the people need.”

Under Article V, a convention of states can be convened to discuss and propose amendments to the constitution if two-thirds of the state legislatures in America pass applications concerning the same issues. Congress would then be required to set a time and date for the convention, and state legislatures from all 50 states, regardless of whether they had applied, would choose delegates to represent their interests.

At the convention, each state would have one vote and the delegates would work together on amendments to the constitution that would need a simple majority of 26 votes to pass.

Finally, each of those proposed amendments would go back to the state legislatures, where three-fourths, or 38, of the states would have to ratify an amendment for it to become law.