May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
None of the amendment campaigns . . . favors the open-ended convention needed for radical change. All of their model legislative applications severely limit the convention’s scope.
READ MORE[D]uring the 2013 shutdown, the Department of the Interior announced it was closing Rocky Mountain National Park . . . No problem: Colorado state government kicked in the money . . . and it stayed open. A few Coloradans began to ask, “Who needs the feds to run the park after all?”
READ MOREEducated citizens who enter politics eventually learn that deep ignorance is not unusual among elected officials. To idealists, the discovery can be a shock.
READ MOREMorris’ approach was unique and has served as an inspiration for constitution-makers ever since.
READ MOREOpponents of the new tax law are right to be concerned about federal overreaching, but they are barking up the wrong tree. They are inventing a fictional limit on federal authority while ignoring real ones.
READ MOREFortunately, by the time the Constitution was written, this verbal confusion had been pretty much been sorted out.
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