Where Chief Justice Burger Likely Got His Anti-Amendment Convention Views0

• Article V, CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
• March 20, 2015

This article originally appeared in the American Thinker. Opponents of the Constitution’s Article V convention method of proposing amendments tout three letters written in the 1980s by former Chief Justice Warren Burger. In those letters, Burger took a very hard line against any convention of states that might bypass Congress and propose corrective constitutional amendments.