How A Famous English Convention Clarifies the Role of a Convention of States0

• Article V, CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court, Uncategorized
• September 26, 2015

Note: This article first appeared on the American Thinker website. In the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, a “convention” can mean a contract, but the word is more often applied to an assembly, other than a legislature, convened to address ad hoc political problems. The “Convention for proposing Amendments” authorized by Article V of the Constitution is