May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
These witnesses and their congressional sponsors apparently believe the consensus of professionals should control foreign policy. . . . But the Constitution squarely repudiates this “foreign policy by committee” approach.
READ MORENothing in the Constitution gives [the Speaker of the House a presidential-style veto.
READ MORE[A] whole generation of law students has been trained to think that the 19th century courts were heartless tools of malicious capitalists, and that enlightened reform came only with the virtuous 20th century “progressives.”
READ MOREOriginalism has been the prevailing method of documentary interpretation in English and American law for at least five centuries.
READ MORENorth Carolinians repeatedly—both in official and unofficial documents—referred to an Article V convention as a “convention of the states.”
READ MOREThe committee’s decision . . . may be convenient for its purposes. But it violates both the rule of law and the American constitutional order.
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