By Rob Natelson Via his site A spate of new applications from state legislatures for a “convention for proposing amendments” make it more likely that we will have an amendments convention in the near future. In order to get ready for this historic event, lawyers, legislators, and others involved in the process need a reliable guide to the law governing amendment conventions. Citizens for Self Governance has just published my legal treatise on the subject as part of their Convention of States project. It is called A Compendium for Lawyers and Legislative Drafters. In addition to over 80 … [Read more...]
Dec 11, 2013
Amending the Constitution- A Viable Solution
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Rob Natelson taught constitutional law and constitutional history, and currently serves as Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Independence Institute. He is a widely-published scholar on the Constitution and on the amendment procedure, and several Supreme Court opinions have relied on his work. He is one of the World's foremost authorities on the article V convention process. Tim Baldwin from Liberty Defense League interviews him in this video from Northwest Liberty News. This video gives a good explanation of why nullification won't work. Please like and comment For … [Read more...]
Aug 30, 2013
Michael Farris parts ways with friend Phyllis Schlafly over Article V
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Why we need a convention of the states now Michael Farris parts ways with friend Phyllis Schlafly over Article V By Michael Farris -Via WND.com- Phyllis Schlafly was the general of the army in the battle against the Equal Rights Amendment. I was a line officer called into duty when, in 1978, Congress purported to change the deadline for the ratification of that amendment. On behalf of three Washington state legislators, I filed the first legal challenge to the constitutionality of the misuse of the Article V process by Congress. My lawsuit was later consolidated with a similar case … [Read more...]
Aug 29, 2013
Article V -The Myth of a Runaway Amendments Convention
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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...]
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