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How progressives promoted the ‘runaway convention’ myth to save judicial activism

How progressives promoted the ‘runaway convention’ myth to save judicial activism

by Rob Natelson

You may have heard alarms that if we hold a national convention for proposing constitutional amendments the gathering would be an uncontrollable constitutional convention (“con-con”) that could propose anything at all.

The claim is called the “runaway scenario.” It has almost no basis in history or law.

Read the whole article originally published in The Hill on May 7, 2017.

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