May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
The Colorado River Commission was one of the most successful conventions of states ever held. Its achievement debunks uninformed claims that interstate conventions are “unprecedented” or cannot follow a pre-set agenda.
READ MOREFar from authorizing more federal power, amendments almost certainly will reduce federal prerogatives and edge us toward decentralization.
READ MOREThe hysteria has been matched only by the detractors’ astonishing constitutional ignorance.
READ MORERight now—while pandemic mistakes are fresh in our minds—is the time to adopt legal reforms to ensure those mistakes don’t happen again.
READ MOREThis 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.”
READ MOREThe baseless argument that a “national convention can do anything” never has had any force with the national convention known as the Electoral College.
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