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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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.
In recent months, Hillary Clinton has made numerous inaccurate statements about those Americans working for what the Constitution calls a
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Fortunately, by the time the Constitution was written, this verbal confusion had been pretty much been sorted out.
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[I]t became clear the ERA was a poorly-drafted measure that would do little for women’s rights. It would have transferred massive amounts of power away from local governments and elected representatives, handing it instead to lawyers, judges, and bureaucrats.
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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The convention of the states meeting in Phoenix, Arizona in September will need a set of rules. Moreover, that convention
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You may have heard alarms that if we hold a national convention for proposing constitutional amendments the gathering would be
