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Answering the “Runaway Scenario”: Constitutional Whack-a-Mole

July 21, 2021 Rob Natelson 0

In modern conditions, it is literally impossible for an amendments convention to exceed its authority; the “run away” scenario is designed only to frighten and […]

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The Runaway Convention Myth: How Two Leading Newspapers Promoted It

June 11, 2017 articlev_admin2 0

Although there were scattered antecedents, “runaway convention” claims and certain associated myths were first distributed widely during the 1960s and 1970s. A previous Article V Information […]

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The Runaway Convention Myth: How Academics and other Opinion Leaders Promoted It

May 21, 2017 articlev_admin2 0

You may have heard alarms that if we hold a national convention for proposing constitutional amendments the gathering would be an uncontrollable constitutional convention (“con-con”) […]

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Yes, the Constitution was adopted legally

May 17, 2017 articlev_admin2 0

An old myth has showed up in the media again: the myth that delegates to the 1787 Constitution Convention violated their trust—that they produced 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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