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New article shows how amendments conventions and other “federal functions” are regulated 0
- April 21, 2020
“[A]nother mistake is that because an amendments convention executes a federal function, Congress can control it. But . . . the rules and protocols for carrying out federal functions come from the Constitution, not from Congress.”
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New scholarly article explains amendments conventions 0
- March 22, 2020
The new article “marshals a massive amount of historical evidence to show that a convention for proposing amendments is simply a ‘convention of the states,’ a frequent kind of gathering in U.S. history, and one whose make-up and procedures is well known.
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Global warming and the Constitution’s amendment process: How to tell whether a ‘consensus’ Is true 0
- March 11, 2020
How academics formed a completely erroneous “consensus” about the convention procedure of Article V.
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New information on the Constitution’s ratification—Part IV North Carolina 0
- December 19, 2019
North Carolinians repeatedly—both in official and unofficial documents—referred to an Article V convention as a “convention of the states.”
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Should we interpret the Constitution so the feds can oversee everything affecting more than one state?0
- November 12, 2019
As the framers did with so many other decisions, in allocating authority between states and federal government they balanced competing values.
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How to reform our dysfunctional federal government 0
- September 20, 2019
For many members of Congress . . . almost their only job experience has been politics. They can hardly understand how the rest of us live.
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