First-Ever Legal Treatise On the Constitution’s Amendment Process!

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Independence Institute Senior Fellow Rob Natelson has written the first legal treatise covering constitutional amendment law. The work, published by […]

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Are recent “rescissions” of Article V applications valid?

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Many recent state legislative Article V rescissions suffer from defects the courts call “material mistakes.” A material mistake can void

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The Founders Pointed to Article V as a Cure for Federal Abuse

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I recently came across one of those silly websites in which a writer largely ignorant of the Constitution’s background purports

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The Impending “Convention for Proposing Amendments” — Part II

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Note: This series of six articles originally appeared in the Washington Post’s “Volokh Conspiracy,” a leading constitutional law website. Part

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