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Month: October 2015

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Trying to Alter the Traditional Amendments Convention Voting Rule Is a Mistake

October 27, 2015 Rob Natelson 0

Note: This article first appeared in The American Thinker.
Advocates of a federal balanced budget amendment are closing in on the 34 states necessary to require Congress to call a convention for proposing amendments. Other groups, such as the Convention of States project, are working assiduously toward the same goal. If they succeed, it will a […]


Simulation Shows What An Amendments Convention Would Be Like

How would an Article V “convention for proposing amendments” work? What would be its agenda? What about its procedures? How would voting be conducted?

History and constitutional law provide the answer to most of those questions, but it also helps to have a specific modern example. That is why Citizens for Self Governance sponsored a simulated convention of states at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia on September 21 through 23.

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Curing Federal Dysfunction by Constitutional Amendment:
A Primer

By Professor Rob Natelson

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