Is the “Compact for America” Procedure to Amend the Constitution Constitutional?—An Update

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Because of widespread interest in the Article V Information Center’s report on the legality of the “Compact for America” approach to

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What is an Amendments Convention “Application?” What is a “Call?”

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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.”
As I pointed out in my book, The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant, 18th century writers were imbued heavily with Latin language […]

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The Constitution’s Article V, Not the 10th Amendment, Gives State Legislatures Their Power in the Amendment Process

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Note: An earlier version of this article appeared inThe American Thinker. Some advocates of a convention for proposing amendments are

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