The Runaway Convention Myth: How Academics and other Opinion Leaders Promoted It

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You may have heard alarms that if we hold a national convention for proposing constitutional amendments the gathering would be

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How progressives promoted the ‘runaway convention’ myth to save judicial activism

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You may have heard alarms that if we hold a national convention for proposing constitutional amendments the gathering would be an uncontrollable constitutional convention (“con-con”) that could propose anything at all. The claim is called the “runaway scenario.” It has almost no basis in history or law.

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Scalia Probably Favored An Amendments Convention — But Does It Matter?

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A majority of state legislatures have voted to trigger the U.S. Constitution’s most important procedure for reforming the federal government.

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