How to amend the Constitution safely and without Congress — according to the Founders
“How to” Issue Papers on obtaining needed constitutional amendments without the consent of Congress.
Was the Constitutional Convention a “Runaway?”
[Rob Natelson is the author of The Original Constitution: What It Really Said and Meant – an objective explanation of the Constitution as understood by the Founders.] There’s an old accusation leveled against the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The Convention was a very long time ago, so the accusation shouldn’t matter any more. […]
Airport searches and the Fourth Amendment
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” – […]
Why law professors don’t tell us much about our Constitution
Real scholarship is about facts, not argument.
Twenty Legal Rules for Conventions for Proposing Amendments
(To learn more about this topic, listen Justin Longo’s interview with Rob Natelson — “What Would an Article V Convention Look Like?“) This is the third in a series of three articles about the Constitution’s OTHER method of constitutional amendment – that is, rather than the amendment coming from Congress, the states force a “convention […]
How would a convention for proposing amendments work?
Last week I reported on the growing movement to “save the Constitution by amending it” – the much-precedented process of amending the Constitution to push the government back toward Founding-Era principles. Previous amendments have been proposed by Congress, and ratified by the states. But I noted that Congress is unlikely to propose amendments to limit […]
Amending the Constitution to Save It
To learn more: hear a podcast of “amending the Constitution to save it” at https://ivoices.org/. During the previous year or so there has been more and more interest in the idea of “amending the U.S. Constitution to save it.” Several websites are now devoted to that idea. One illustration is the site entitled “10 Amendments […]
Restoring Federalism and State Sovereignty: A Constitutional Path to Prosperity
The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution provides: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
Over the first century of our nation’s history the 10th Amendment was an important part of the Constitutional rules constraining the growth of the federal government.
Tax and Spending Limits for Montana? Criteria for Assessing Current Proposals
IP-10-1994 (September 1994) Author: Robert G. Natelson PDF of full Issue Paper Scribd version of full Issue Paper Executive Summary: This November, Montana voters will consider two proposals to place Tax- Expenditure Limitations (TELs) in the state constitution. There is a clear inverse correlation between level of state and local government revenue and comparative economic […]
