Momentum for an Amendments Convention Accelerates Even More
Well over a hundred state lawmakers from 33 states met this past week to plan for an Article V “Convention […]
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Momentum for Amendments Convention Accelerates
It increasingly looks like a “convention for proposing amendments” is really going to happen. The last 18 months have witnessed
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A Legal Treatise on the Law of Amendment Conventions—For Free!
A spate of new applications from state legislatures for a “convention for proposing amendments” make it more likely that we
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May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
Some constitutional scholars believe state applications for a convention for proposing amendments may limit the convention to voting “yes” or
Why We Must Act Now To Use the Constitution’s Amendment Process to Restore Fiscal Sanity
Following is an address I gave in Orlando Florida on April 26, 2013 on the need to use the Constitution’s
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Count of Legislative Applications for a Balanced Budget Amendment
by Rob Natelson The following states have applications outstanding for a federal convention to propose a balanced budget amendment: Alabama,
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New Flyer Explains How the States Can Use the Constitutional Amendment Process to Curb the Feds (Article V)
by Rob Natelson The Founders built various checks and balances into the Constitution. One of the most important was the
Constitutional Arcana: The Forgotten Navigation Convention of 1786
In an earlier post, I reported that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was far from unique: that during the lifetime
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New “how to” paper on proposing constitutional amendments by convention
The Independence Institute has published my new Issue Paper, Amending the Constitution by Convention: Practical Guidance for Citizens and Policymakers.
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New History of Founding Era Conventions
Very few people know that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 only the last of nearly 20 other conventions in which
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Why an Amendments Convention is not a “Constitutional Convention”
Sometimes a convention for proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution is referred to as a “constitutional convention.” That title is
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The Little-Known—but Seminal—York Town Convention of 1777
The U.S. Constitution authorizes a “convention for proposing amendments” to offer amendments for ratification (or rejection) by the states. The
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