Rob Natelson Archives - Independence Institute

Drafting a Balanced Budget Amendment: It’s tougher than you might think 0
- July 21, 2017
Of course, it is one thing to criticize, but another to try to craft something better.
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If you want to win a Supreme Court case, it helps to play to “progressive” values 0
- July 18, 2017
Observe how many of the Left’s ideological buttons the plaintiff’s lawyers pushed: non-profit, recycling, mandatory government fee, poverty, disabilities, environment—and that interminably-overused mantra: community.
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The last convention of states ever held? It Centered on the Upper Colorado River 0
- June 29, 2017
“This latest convention of states operated according to standard convention of states protocols.”
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Supreme Court’s Ruling Against the PC Police 0
- June 23, 2017
The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Matal v. Tam sent a clear warning to government officials who seek to curtail speech they deem offensive: We won’t let you do it! The warning was particularly pointed for the PC Police at state universities who try to close down viewpoints they find “offensive.” A federal law ordered the
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The Define and Punish Clause doesn’t authorize vast federal power either 0
- June 14, 2017
Legal commentators have spread a good deal of ink trying to show that the Constitution authorizes the enormous expansion of the federal government since the 1930s. Leading the way have been some associated—as professors, students, or alumni—with the most privileged educational institutions: Harvard, Yale, Chicago, and so forth. Their publications inflated the Commerce Clause to
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Fake News: How Leading Liberal Newspapers Spread the “Runaway Convention” Story 0
- June 11, 2017
Although there were scattered antecedents, “runaway convention” claims and certain associated myths were first distributed widely during the 1960s and 1970s. In a previous Article V Information Center study, I documented how those stories were publicized by leading opinion-molders in the national liberal establishment. Their goal was to disable the Article V convention process to
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