May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
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The 4th Edition of Prof. Natelson’s Article V Treatise Is Now Here!!0
- May 19, 2016
In 2014 the first legal treatise ever on the Constitution’s amendment process was published: Prof. Rob Natelson’s work, State Initiation of Constitutional Amendments: A Guide for Lawyers and Legislative Drafters. The work was commissioned by the Convention of States Project of Citizens for Self Governance. Over the past two years, the treatise has undergone updating and expansion.
READ MOREIs the “Compact for America” Procedure to Amend the Constitution Constitutional?—An Update0
- 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
READ MORENewly-Published Ratification Documents Confirm Our Conclusions on the Amendment Process0
- May 9, 2016
The Wisconsin Historical Society publishes successive volumes of the Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States. As its name indicates, the Documentary History is a multi-volume set of books containing documents from the debates over the Constitution’s ratification. The Wisconsin Historical Society published fairly recently two volumes from the debates in Maryland. There
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Book Review: Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party0
- 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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What is an Amendments Convention “Application?” What is a “Call?”0
- February 25, 2016
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.”
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