The Constitution says that “on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, [Congress] shall call […]
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New Hampshire was, and is, quite a small state, but its ratification was particularly significant.
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. . . if you want to apply the Founders’ own rules of interpretation to the Constitution, the understanding of the ratifiers is most important.
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Each anti-TABOR court decision has become precedent for further anti-TABOR decisions.
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An extra-constitutional action may be legal or illegal.
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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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So what was the understanding in 1787-90? I have pieced this together over many years. In a nutshell, here it is:
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Opponents then — like their successors today — claimed they were protecting the Constitution. But what they actually were (and are) doing is protecting judges and politicians who abuse their positions by changing constitutional rules without following the normal democratic process.
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Of course, the political establishment doesn’t want you to exercise this constitutional right. So they use the same tactics vote-suppressors use: disinformation and fear.
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This article was first published in the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press Do you think our political system is working
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Judicial protection from most economic regulations — even grossly unfair and anti-competitive ones — is so weak as to be nearly non-existent.
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The Colorado Constitution’s ban on aid to “sectarian” institutions flatly violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
