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Are Recent “Rescissions” of Article V Applications Valid?0
- August 13, 2018
“The preambles of seven of the nine rescissions show they were based on material mistakes of law and fact.
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Missouri court gets it right on constitutional amendment law 0
- July 31, 2018
“The courts have a long record of applying constitutional amendment law accurately and fairly.”
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New Study: We Are Only One State Away from a Convention to Propose a Balanced Budget Amendment 0
- May 9, 2018
The Constitution says that “on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, [Congress] shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments.” However, there has been relatively little credible research into what “the Application of . . . two thirds” means. Most scholars who have investigated the issue agree that applications must
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New Information on the Constitution’s Ratification — Part I: South Carolina 0
- May 3, 2018
. . . if you want to apply the Founders’ own rules of interpretation to the Constitution, the understanding of the ratifiers is most important.
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Unconstitutional? Extra-Constitutional? What’s the Difference?0
- April 24, 2018
An extra-constitutional action may be legal or illegal.
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Is Federal Infrastructure Spending Unconstitutional?0
- April 3, 2018
So what was the understanding in 1787-90? I have pieced this together over many years. In a nutshell, here it is:
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