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Month: January 2017

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State Lawmakers! Don’t Put Extraneous Matter in Your Article V Application

January 20, 2017 articlev_admin2 0

by Robert G. Natelson State lawmakers sponsoring an Article V convention application often find that other lawmakers want to add extraneous matter to the application. […]

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Constitutional Convention: John Jay Letter Shows Its Power Came from State Legislatures, not Congress

January 15, 2017 articlev_admin2 0

A persistent constitutional myth has it that (1) Congress called the Constitutional Convention under the Articles of Confederation, (2) the convention drew its power from […]

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Runaway Convention? Meet the ULC: An Annual Conference of States Started in 1892 That Has Never Run Away

January 11, 2017 articlev_admin2 0

by Kenneth Quinn For decades fearmongers and naysayers have been claiming that the 1787 Constitutional Convention was a “runaway” convention and therefore if an Article […]


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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