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New Q&A Sheet Answers Questions, Responds to Objections

March 29, 2021 Rob Natelson 0

Click here for a list of common questions about conventions and common objections. The sheet is backed up by research available here at the Article […]

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How a ‘Convention of States’ Really Works

March 4, 2021 Rob Natelson 0

This article was first published by the Epoch Times on February 25, 2021. “Ignorance lies not in the things you don’t know, but in the things you know that […]

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Just published: Complete evidence showing that an amendments convention is a convention of states

February 11, 2021 Rob Natelson 0

To amend the Constitution, approval of an amendment by three fourths of the states (now 38 of 50) is required. But before that, the amendment […]

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New article summarizes the amendment process in context

February 7, 2021 Rob Natelson 0

During the 2020 election controversy a key aspect of our Constitution surfaced that few people—including most attorneys—had ever heard of. This was the little-known field […]

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The solution is a convention of the states

February 1, 2021 Rob Natelson 0

By Rob Natelson A version of this essay was first published by the Epoch Times on January 25, 2021. For over 80 years, Americans who […]

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Newly published founding-era documents confirm that an amendments convention is a traditional “convention of the states”

January 1, 2020 Rob Natelson 0

The editors of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution recently released two volumes of documents covering the Constitution’s ratification in North Carolina—the last state […]

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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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