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Cruz Withdrawal Postpones “Natural Born” Issue 0
- May 15, 2016
This article first appeared in the Forth Worth Star Telegram. A silver lining to the withdrawal of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, from the presidential race is that we will be spared a battle over whether he met the Constitution’s requirement the president be a “natural born citizen.” The evidence is not all one way, but
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Is the “Compact for America” Procedure to Amend the Constitution Constitutional?—An Update 0
- May 10, 2016
Because of widespread interest in the Article V Information Center’s report on the legality of the “Compact for America” approach to amending the Constitution, we are reprinting it here. Distilled to its essence, the “Compact” approach is unconstitutional because it seeks to change, through state legislative action (statutes and interstate compacts), the amendment procedure specified in
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Ranking the Presidents Using CONSTITUTIONAL Factors Rather than Liberal Politics 0
- May 4, 2016
This article was first published by CNSNews. In an earlier post, I pointed out that the usual academic rankings of presidents are flawed. They are flawed because they rely on criteria not in the Constitution’s job description for the president. As a result, academic rankings consistently overrate liberal activist presidents and underrate those who conscientiously
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Measuring Good and Bad Presidents: Why Academic Historians Are Wrong 0
- May 4, 2016
This article was first posted at CNS News. I recently watched an academic panel on C-SPAN devoted to “The Worst Presidents In American History.” It was sponsored by the Organization of American Historians. As is true of so many academic panels today, it was “diverse” in the sense that the participants were of different races
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Book Review: Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party 0
- April 20, 2016
I expected this book, written by Dinesh D’Souza and published by Broadside Books, to be bitter. For one thing, the title conveys bitterness. And Dinesh D’Souza has reason to be bitter: A first offender, he had been threatened with prison and then sentenced to confinement for an offense usually not even prosecuted: two misreported
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Is the “Compact for America” Plan to Amend the Constitution Constitutional? Unfortunately not.0
- April 3, 2016
II’s Article V Information Center has just issued a law report concluding that the “Compact for America” approach to amending the Constitution is, unfortunately, almost wholly unconstitutional.
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