North Carolinians repeatedly—both in official and unofficial documents—referred to an Article V convention as a “convention of the states.”
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For many members of Congress . . . almost their only job experience has been politics. They can hardly understand how the rest of us live.
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By clarifying constitutional amendment law, Stevens made it more accessible to citizens who now seek to use it to cure our dysfunctional federal government.
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The new book collects over two hundred years of history, amendment practice, and court decisions.
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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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The Constitution says that “on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, [Congress] shall call
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None of the amendment campaigns . . . favors the open-ended convention needed for radical change. All of their model legislative applications severely limit the convention’s scope.
Of course, it is one thing to criticize, but another to try to craft something better.
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“This latest convention of states operated according to standard convention of states protocols.”
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Although there were scattered antecedents, “runaway convention” claims and certain associated myths were first distributed widely during the 1960s and
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In this short essay, constitutional historian Rob Natelson thumbnails the three-centuries long history of “conventions of the states.” When delegations
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