Supreme Court Confirms Rule that when State Legislatures Act in the Amendment Process, They Do So Independently
The Supreme Court has re-confirmed a key rule of constitutional amendment law.
The D.C. Circuit’s Convoluted Opinion on the “Equal Rights Amendment”
With one exception, neither the judges nor the parties in the case seemed to understand any of the basic principles of amendment law listed here.
The Founders and the Constitution, Part 11: George Mason
Mason impacted the Constitution both by helping to draft it and helping to oppose it.
Why Biden Can’t Use the 14th Amendment to Raise the Debt Ceiling
Not raising the debt limit doesn’t cause default; it just forces the federal government to run a balanced budget.
Scholar Finds that Congress’s Power over Amendments Conventions is Strictly Limited
Dr. Wieciech is to be commended for examining an important constitutional issue and arriving at generally well-based conclusions.
The Founders and the Constitution, Part 3: James Madison
Madison was the most important single individual in the Constitution’s formation.
New Videos Explain the Article V Convention Process
Tired of the federal government’s overreaching and dysfunction? Here’s the solution the Constitution prescribes
The end of representative government?
None of the four “progressive” mega-donors had any personal connections to most of the legislative districts they targeted. They didn’t live there, didn’t own property there, and in most cases probably had never seen the district.
The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 19: Jean-Louis DeLolme: ‘We the People …’
The source of the Constitution’s first three words was very likely Jean-Louis DeLolme.
The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 17: Sir Isaac Newton
Newton exemplified the Scientific Revolution—an event that changed not only how people thought about the physical universe, but also how they thought about politics and government. This greatly affected the U.S. Constitution.
No, a Convention of States Could Not Change the “One State/One Vote” Rule
Could a convention of states could change the “one state/one vote” rule to one based on population? The short answer is “No.” In at least 42 conventions of states and colonies over 350+years, there is no precedent for such a change. The possibility exists only in the fantasies of convention opponents. Defenders of the federal […]
Yet more evidence comes to light that an amendments convention is a “convention of the states”
Founding era state legislative records show beyond doubt that an amendments convention is a “convention of the states”
