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First-Ever Legal Treatise On the Constitution’s Amendment Process!

December 13, 2018 Rob Natelson 0

Independence Institute Senior Fellow Rob Natelson has written the first legal treatise covering constitutional amendment law. The work, published by Apis Books, focuses on the […]

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Are recent “rescissions” of Article V applications valid?

November 16, 2018 Rob Natelson 0

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 […]

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The Founders Pointed to Article V as a Cure for Federal Abuse

November 14, 2018 Rob Natelson 0

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. […]

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The Impending “Convention for Proposing Amendments” — Part II

February 7, 2016 articlev_admin2 0

Note: This series of six articles originally appeared in the Washington Post’s “Volokh Conspiracy,” a leading constitutional law website. Part I appears below, and Parts […]

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New U.S. House Rule: A Hopeful Sign for an Amendments Convention

January 26, 2015 Rob Natelson 0

As the likelihood of a Convention for Proposing Amendments increases, people are beginning to adjust to the idea. A recent example is adoption of 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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