Dr. Rob Natelson Speech About The Convention of States

Dr. Rob Natelson Speech About The Convention of States

Dr. Rob Natelson, esteemed Constitutional scholar and leading expert on Article V, puts the "runaway convention" objection to rest. speech from mid August of this year. For More Articles about The Convention of States and Article V, Click Here … [Read more...]

Ohio Lawmakers Call for Constitutional Convention, Balanced-Budget Amendment

Ohio Lawmakers Call for Constitutional Convention, Balanced-Budget Amendment

Ohio lawmakers call for constitutional convention, balanced-budget amendment By: Maggie Thurber Via Watchdog.org and Human Events -Saying the national debt is the most critical social and economic issue of our time, Ohio lawmakers want a convention to propose a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. State Rep. Matt Huffman, R-Lima, on Wednesday called the size of the national debt a “terrible, horrific” problem that could only be solved by the states demanding a balanced-budget amendment and forcing the federal government to live within its means. In August, Gov. John … [Read more...]

The Delusions of Ana Marie Cox

The Delusions of Ana Marie Cox

The Delusions of Ana Marie Cox A history major who doesn't grasp history Ana Marie Cox is the founding editor of the leftist blog Wonkette and a former employee of the embarrassing Air American Media. According to Ben Shapiro, editor of Breitbart, she talks more like a sailor than a lady. She wrote a review of Mark Levin's new book, The Liberty Amendments, for The Guardian which was filled with third grade playground level insults. Cox is usually a half way decent writer, despite her ideology. Therefore, perhaps this incoherent ridiculous article stemmed from her jealousy that Mark Levin … [Read more...]

Michael Farris parts ways with friend Phyllis Schlafly over Article V

Michael Farris parts ways with friend Phyllis Schlafly over Article V

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...]

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...]