Earlier this year, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy published my article showing that the Constitution’s Recess Appointments […]
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A spate of new applications from state legislatures for a “convention for proposing amendments” make it more likely that we
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Article V of the Constitution authorizes a “Convention for proposing Amendments.” However, it does did not specify how the convention
Take out a dollar bill and look on the back. There you will see the two sides of the Great
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The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit recently refused to dismiss the suit by various public sector
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(This article originally appeared in the American Thinker.) Opponents of a Convention of States long argued that there was an
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Many opponents of an Article V convention seem to think that it would be a nearly unique event, for which
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Last May, I reported that litigation over President Obama’s “recess appointments” was going to the Supreme Court. In fact, oral
Does a state have the right to nullify federal statutes the state considers unconstitutional? This depends largely on how you
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“Progressives” often attack as indefensible proposals by some conservatives that states nullify federal laws those states deem unconstitutional. But “progressive”
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For over 300 years, American states (and before Independence, American colonies) have cooperated with each other as equal sovereigns to
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The Constitution’s Framers were very great men, but they were not gods. They made mistakes. By “mistakes,” I’m not talking
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