State Lawmakers! Don’t Put Extraneous Matter in Your Article V Application
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. […]
Month: January 2017
Constitutional Convention: John Jay Letter Shows Its Power Came from State Legislatures, not Congress
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 […]
Runaway Convention? Meet the ULC: An Annual Conference of States Started in 1892 That Has Never Run Away
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 […]