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.
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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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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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How academics formed a completely erroneous “consensus” about the convention procedure of Article V.
North Carolinians repeatedly—both in official and unofficial documents—referred to an Article V convention as a “convention of the states.”
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For many members of Congress . . . almost their only job experience has been politics. They can hardly understand how the rest of us live.
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By clarifying constitutional amendment law, Stevens made it more accessible to citizens who now seek to use it to cure our dysfunctional federal government.
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Historically, amendments have proven to be powerful vehicles for reform.
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Will the American people correct the situation and end the crisis? Or is our era of constitutional government over? The answers depend largely on the fate of the “convention of states” movement.
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Many federal programs have been adopted in excess of the original Constitution’s limits on federal authority. They have been identified as culprits behind a number of serious social problems.
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Some opponents . . . try to communicate that Madison opposed all amendments conventions. This is certainly not true,
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