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How objections to an amendments convention got started 0
- May 12, 2022
Arguments some right-wing groups use to oppose an amendments convention were invented by activists on the Left.
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Are constitutional amendments coming?0
- April 28, 2022
Far from authorizing more federal power, amendments almost certainly will reduce federal prerogatives and edge us toward decentralization.
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Two New Conventions of States Discovered!0
- February 20, 2022
This information raises the number of verified conventions of colonies and states to 42. This experience renders absurd the common claim that the . . . details of conventions of states are “unknown.”
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Avoiding secession through an amendments convention 0
- October 1, 2021
We have everything to gain from a convention of states and nothing to lose. . . We have a moral and legal obligation to employ that constitutional tool before splitting up the country.
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Is it “too late” for an amendments convention?0
- September 26, 2021
These objections are not real. They are excuses made by lazy and cowardly people avoiding their civic responsibility.
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How a ‘Convention of States’ really works 0
- March 4, 2021
Frantic claims that it’s a “constitutional convention” … or that it can issue a new document or “radically re-write” the existing one … or change the ratification procedure—none of these have any legal or historical basis.
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