May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
I examined how the Constitution was represented to, and understood by, the ratifying public. And that resolved any doubt.
READ MORE“THE POWERS OF THE SWORD ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE YEOMANRY OF AMERICA FROM SIXTEEN TO SIXTY … Who are the militia? are they not ourselves[?].”
READ MOREThe three recently-issued Pennsylvania volumes . . . offer virtually no support to the commerce-is-everything school of thought. On the contrary, in the documents reproduced in this volumes “commerce” clearly refers to a concept separate from other economic and non-economic activities.
READ MORESome opponents . . . try to communicate that Madison opposed all amendments conventions. This is certainly not true,
READ MOREArms-length market transactions simply are not “emoluments” as the Constitution uses the word.
READ MOREThis passage leaves nothing to inference: Coxe states explicitly that the militia consists of every man from 16 to 60 years of age.
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