The authors affiliated with the Compact for America (CFA) would have us believe that states may use their ordinary law-making […]
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Recently a professor teaching constitutional law at a prestigious university wrote in one of the nation’s top newspapers that we
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This posting was updated on Jan. 18, 2023. In June, 2016 the Assembly of State Legislatures (ASL), a planning group
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In prior posts, I’ve discussed two key elements of constitutional law: 1. The Constitution grants some powers to persons and
In 2011 a national trade group of state lawmakers asked me to summarize Article V research for state legislators around
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The Article V Information Center has updated and expanded Rob Natelson’s report on the constitutionality of the “Compact for
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When interpreting a legal document, you often can get clues from looking at any predecessors to the document. For example,
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This article originally appeared in The American Spectator The Supreme Court recently stepped back from its campaign to impose its
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In 2014 the first legal treatise ever on the Constitution’s amendment process was published: Prof. Rob Natelson’s work, State Initiation of
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This article first appeared in the Forth Worth Star Telegram. A silver lining to the withdrawal of Sen. Ted Cruz,
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Because of widespread interest in the Article V Information Center’s report on the legality of the “Compact for America” approach to
The Wisconsin Historical Society publishes successive volumes of the Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States. As its
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