The hysteria has been matched only by the detractors’ astonishing constitutional ignorance.
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Right now—while pandemic mistakes are fresh in our minds—is the time to adopt legal reforms to ensure those mistakes don’t happen again.
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This information raises the number of verified conventions of colonies and states to 42. This experience renders absurd the common claim that the . . . details of conventions of states are “unknown.”
Two New Conventions of States Discovered! Read More »
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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States can refuse to cooperate with a federal program or enforce an unconstitutional federal law.
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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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