What is important for legal purposes is not how we use those words. What is important is how the Constitution uses them.
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A constitutional convention can be limited and an Article V convention has even less scope than a constitutional convention.
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A common tactic among opponents of an amendments convention is to label it a “constitutional convention,” and then claim that
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Why would those responsible for the 14th amendment disqualify a former insurrectionary from most other offices, but not from the presidency? . . . The chances of a former Confederate being elected President were effectively “zero.”
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The Insurrection Act might apply if “woke” state university officials look the other way while mobs prevent conservative students from exercising their constitutional right to free speech.
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President Trump has never been convicted—or even charged—with insurrection. . . . I think there should be a conviction for criminal insurrection before a person is disqualified.
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The Hamas terror attack of October 7 triggered an overwhelming display of support among American Christians for Jews and for Israel.
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To some extent, this has happened in several states, But nowhere has it gone as far as in Montana, where the state’s highest court has asserted an absolute veto over what the people may add to their own constitution.
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The record shows that the Constitution’s meaning of “natural born” is complicated, but clear-cut
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Sixty years of political experience have taught me that secular leftists, unlike most traditional conservatives and liberals, often do not play by the rules.
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JFK was, in some ways, the author of the currently overgrown and dysfunctional federal bureaucracy.
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A version of this essay was first published in the Nov. 12, 2023 Epoch Times. The movement for a national
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