During the 2020 election controversy a key aspect of our Constitution surfaced that few people—including most attorneys—had ever heard of. […]
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By Rob Natelson A version of this essay was first published by the Epoch Times on January 25, 2021. For
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One mark of authors who oppose all efforts to use Article V’s application and convention process is their continued repetition of claims that are demonstrably false. Those statements—whether made by those on the Left or Right—are often remarkably similar, reflecting their common origin in a 1960s-70s propaganda campaign.
Some of the authors are academics . . . . But they all have two attributes in common: None has ever published independent research on Article V, and none displays any knowledge of recent scholarship on the subject.
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Opponents of a convention for proposing amendments frequently cite a passage in a 1788 letter written by James Madison to
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Article V authorizes interstate negotiation through a convention, but other forms of interstate negotiation occur very frequently. One form is
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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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In 2015, I obtained the journal for still another convention of states: The convention that met in 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama.
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A frequent argument against a convention for proposing constitutional amendments is that there are “no precedents” for determining the rules
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