Idaho considers an amendments convention
This article was first published at the Mountain State Policy Center website. One reason the federal government has become so dysfunctional—it can’t even balance its […]
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List of Additional Founding-era Descriptions of an Article V Convention as a “Convention of States”
During the Founding-era, there was a clear distinction between conventions of the people—which consisted of delegates directly elected by the voters from specific districts—and conventions […]
Even Constitutional Conventions are Limited
A common tactic among opponents of an amendments convention is to label it a “constitutional convention,” and then claim that a constitutional convention is inherently […]
Heritage Foundation Paper Supports a “Convention of the States”
A version of this essay was first published in the Nov. 12, 2023 Epoch Times. The movement for a national convention of states recently got […]
The D.C. Circuit’s Convoluted Opinion on the “Equal Rights Amendment”
by Rob Natelson Advocates of the long-dead Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) have lost an effort to get their amendment “certified” by the Archivist of the […]
Scholar Finds that Congress’s Power over Amendments Conventions is Strictly Limited
A Review by Rob Natelson Before the dramatic findings of scholarship in the early part of this century, American academics produced many articles speculating on […]