The baseless argument that a “national convention can do anything” never has had any force with the national convention known as the Electoral College.
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The lamp of experience sheds light unmistakably bright and clear: Constitutional amendments work.
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We have everything to gain from a convention of states and nothing to lose. . . We have a moral and legal obligation to employ that constitutional tool before splitting up the country.
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These objections are not real. They are excuses made by lazy and cowardly people avoiding their civic responsibility.
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Even today, despite all the state legislative cessions, the authority available to state lawmakers remains impressive.
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Frantic claims that it’s a “constitutional convention” … or that it can issue a new document or “radically re-write” the existing one … or change the ratification procedure—none of these have any legal or historical basis.
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The Constitution’s “federal functions” are almost totally overlooked in law school courses. Yet they are hugely important.
New article relevant to the 2020 election, amendments, & much more! Read More »
By using the Constitution’s convention procedure, we can enact the reforms necessary to save the country—and we can make them permanent.
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I’ve been in and around politics for over 50 years. I know a diversion when I see one.
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If we were to cut the presidency down to constitutional size, it wouldn’t matter so much that on rare occasions the position’s occupant was not the popular vote winner.
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“[A]nother mistake is that because an amendments convention executes a federal function, Congress can control it. But . . . the rules and protocols for carrying out federal functions come from the Constitution, not from Congress.”
New article shows how amendments conventions and other “federal functions” are regulated Read More »
The new article “marshals a massive amount of historical evidence to show that a convention for proposing amendments is simply a ‘convention of the states,’ a frequent kind of gathering in U.S. history, and one whose make-up and procedures is well known.
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