Are recent “rescissions” of Article V applications valid?
Many recent state legislative Article V rescissions suffer from defects the courts call “material mistakes.” A material mistake can void some legal documents. Article V […]
Many recent state legislative Article V rescissions suffer from defects the courts call “material mistakes.” A material mistake can void some legal documents. Article V […]
I recently came across one of those silly websites in which a writer largely ignorant of the Constitution’s background purports to lecture us about it. […]
This article first appeared at the Independence Institute Constitutional Studies website. Some alarmists are comparing an Article V convention to the Republican and Democratic National […]
The latest of a long line of conventions of states was held in September 12-15, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. It was called by the Arizona […]
This article originally appeared in The Hill on July 17, 2018. Amid all the false claims distributed about the Constitution’s amendment-convention process, it is refreshing […]
The state legislative power to issue binding applications for an amendments convention derives either directly from the Constitution (Article V) or from authority retained (“reserved”) by the states under the Tenth Amendment. Which is it?
A lot hinges on the question. One thing that does is the legal validity of the “Compact for America” approach. The […]
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