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How to reform our dysfunctional federal government

March 13, 2019 Rob Natelson 0

Over the 230 years since our Constitution went into operation, amendments have proved to be powerful instruments of reform.

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Correcting Hillary Clinton’s Misconceptions About the Article V Movement

February 21, 2018 articlev_admin2 0

In recent months, Hillary Clinton has made numerous inaccurate statements about those Americans working for what the Constitution calls a “convention for proposing amendments.” Because […]

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How We Know an Amendments Convention is a “Convention of the States”

October 24, 2017 articlev_admin2 0

Because the Constitution does not explicitly call a convention for proposing amendments a “convention of the states,” some convention opponents still argue that its nature […]

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The 37th “Convention of States” Discovered!

August 21, 2016 articlev_admin2 0

Recently a professor teaching constitutional law at a prestigious university wrote in one of the nation’s top newspapers that we should oppose an Article V convention […]

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Is the “Compact for America” Procedure to Amend the Constitution Constitutional?—An Update

May 10, 2016 articlev_admin2 0

Because of widespread interest in the Article V Information Center’s report on the legality of the “Compact for America” approach to amending the Constitution, we are […]

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Newly-Published Ratification Documents Confirm Our Conclusions on the Amendment Process

May 10, 2016 articlev_admin2 0

The Wisconsin Historical Society publishes successive volumes of the Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States. As its name indicates, the Documentary History […]


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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