May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
Social justice warriors also may be offended by my outlining another way the Senate improves decision making. Here it is . . .
READ MOREIf you assume that counting persons is the proper basis for congressional representation, it’s easy to see how one could misread the reduction for slaves and the exclusion of non-tax-paying Indians as expressions of racism. However, many, probably most, of the framers did not think counting persons was the proper basis for representation.
READ MOREStates can refuse to cooperate with a federal program or enforce an unconstitutional federal law.
READ MOREBased on the Constitution’s text and history, Congress’s power to regulate its own elections should be narrowly construed.
READ MOREH.R. 1 contains some sections that are perfectly constitutional . . . .But they are intertwined with provisions that are clearly (or arguably) unconstitutional. This intertwining would take decades of litigation to unravel.
READ MOREFrantic claims that it’s a “constitutional convention” … or that it can issue a new document or “radically re-write” the existing one … or change the ratification procedure—none of these have any legal or historical basis.
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