Article V -The Myth of a Runaway Amendments Convention

Article V -The Myth of a Runaway Amendments Convention

By Rob Natelson, Professor of Law- Via The American Thinker -The Founders bequeathed Americans a method to bypass the federal government and amend the Constitution, empowering two thirds of the states to call an Amendments Convention. In the wake of Mark Levin's bestselling book, The Liberty Amendments, proposing just such a convention, entirely unnecessary alarms have been raised by even some of the leading lights of conservatism, based on an incomplete reading of history and judicial case law. Phyllis Schlafly is a great American and a great leader, but her speculations about the nature … [Read more...]