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List of Additional Founding-era Descriptions of an Article V Convention as a “Convention of States”

February 16, 2025 Rob Natelson 0

In 2020, Marquette Law Review published Rob Natelson’s article listing numerous incidences in which the American Founders, official and unofficial Founding-era documents, 19th century documents, […]

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Even Constitutional Conventions are Limited

January 4, 2024 Rob Natelson 0

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 […]

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Heritage Foundation Paper Supports a “Convention of the States”

November 20, 2023 Rob Natelson 0

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 […]

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The D.C. Circuit’s Convoluted Opinion on the “Equal Rights Amendment”

June 5, 2023 Rob Natelson 0

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 […]

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Scholar Finds that Congress’s Power over Amendments Conventions is Strictly Limited

April 19, 2023 Rob Natelson 0

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 […]

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New Videos Explain the Article V Convention Process

March 21, 2023 Rob Natelson 0

The American Legislative Exchange Council, a trade organization of state legislators, recently created three new videos that explain the Article V convention process for 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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