Nineteen states attended, making it the second-largest convention of states in American history by number of states represented.
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This article originally appeared in The Hill on July 17, 2018. Amid all the false claims distributed about the Constitution’s
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Trump-haters . . . should fix their hopes on impeachment, not on the 25th Amendment. For impeachment, though, you need a proven crime or a real breach of fiduciary duty. . . . Blind hatred and unproved allegations don’t count.
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State constitutions written or favored by “progressives” also have been proclaimed under dubious circumstances.
. . . Those who adopted the Constitution understood that governance of recreational activities, such as sports, was reserved to the states. Regulation of in-state gambling, like other moral issues, similarly was outside the federal sphere.
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“The preambles of seven of the nine rescissions show they were based on material mistakes of law and fact.
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“The courts have a long record of applying constitutional amendment law accurately and fairly.”
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“During the 18th century, when “advice” . . . appeared in the same phrase with the preposition “with,” the word meant deliberation or consideration.”
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But a “friend of the court” brief filed by the Independence Institute has shredded one of the key defenses.
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“Living Constitutionalists” sometimes claim erroneously that recovering the Constitution’s original meaning is impractical.
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The lack of a Latin requirement . . . has encouraged people to become constitutional commentators who are more interested in advancing political agendas than sound constitutional law.
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A president . . . is subject to impeachment and removal for dishonesty, disloyalty, negligence, and the like. But he is not impeachable merely for mistakes in policy or reasonable disagreements over interpretation of the law.
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