[D]uring the 2013 shutdown, the Department of the Interior announced it was closing Rocky Mountain National Park . . . No problem: Colorado state government kicked in the money . . . and it stayed open. A few Coloradans began to ask, “Who needs the feds to run the park after all?”
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Article V of the Constitution states that “The Congress . . . on Applications of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments.”
What is an Amendments Convention “Application?” What is a “Call?” Read More »
Note: This is the last in a series of six articles that originally appeared in the Washington Post’s “Volokh Conspiracy,”
The Impending Convention for Proposing Amendments — Part VI Read More »
Note: This article first appeared on the American Thinker website. In the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, a “convention” can mean a
How A Famous English Convention Clarifies the Role of a Convention of States Read More »
Most of the “prestige” law journals have shown no interest in publishing my articles, including those that later turned out
A "Prestige Journal" Effort to Rebut Rob Read More »
The American Lands Council is a Utah-based organization that argues that the federal government should transfer part of its massive
The Legal Case for Federal Land Disposal is Much Stronger than Critics Think Read More »
This column also appears at CNSNews. The Constitution enumerates the powers of the federal government. But has anyone listed the
Evidence on the Powers the Constitution Leaves Exclusively to the States Read More »
Several years ago, I wrote on this site about the contributions to the American Founding of Josiah Quincy. Another little-known
Resisting Federal Usurpation: Comments by Theophilus Parsons Read More »
The past week saw yet another assault on those reformers who seek to cure federal dysfunction by promoting a “Convention
The Washington Post Picks Up the Flag from the Convention Alarmists Read More »
Early this year in The American Thinker and in this column I discussed state marijuana legalization and federalism. I cautioned
More evidence that “progressivism” increasingly is totalitarianism Read More »
Although I’ve often criticized the constitutional tone-deafness of “progressives,” conservatives can sometimes exhibit such tendencies as well. Over at The
Conservatives need to support trial by jury, too Read More »
It increasingly looks like a “convention for proposing amendments” is really going to happen. The last 18 months have witnessed
Momentum for Amendments Convention Accelerates Read More »
