This much is clear: John Dickinson receives much more of our national gratitude than we have given him.
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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
An old myth has showed up in the media again: the myth that delegates to the 1787 Constitution Convention violated
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Americans finally have a real chance to “clean up the mess in Washington.” That’s the implication of the news that
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A persistent constitutional myth has it that (1) Congress called the Constitutional Convention under the Articles of Confederation, (2) the
