(Note: This is the second of several short commentaries on recent Supreme Court decisions.) There is little more heart-rending than […]
On June 14, I keynoted a conference on the American Founding. The conference was sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
A nation’s health and prosperity depends on good institutions. These institutions are political and private. Good political institutions include balanced
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Judging by recent claims in the media such as this one, there is still a lot of life in the
Veteran Denver Post (and former Rocky Mountain News) columnist Vincent Carroll writes here about the overweaning ambition of those who
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Carting uninformed, transient voters to the polls to vote for the political boss-man is a time-dishonored practice of demagogues everywhere.
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In prior postings such as the one here, I have explained why it is wrong to claim that the commissioners
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One source of security we have in using the Constitution’s amendment process is that the courts, including the U.S. Supreme
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In 1861, the states held a dry run for an Article V “convention for proposing amendments.” The event was the
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NOTE: This is an updated version of an essay first published in 2013. For a comprehensive treatment of amendment law,
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by Rob Natelson The following states have applications outstanding for a federal convention to propose a balanced budget amendment: Alabama,
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by Rob Natelson The Founders built various checks and balances into the Constitution. One of the most important was the
