balanced budget amendment
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Smart Democrats used to understand that elections are won and lost on bread and butter issues, like jobs, wages and economic vitality. You get the impression that boring stuff like…
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Opponents of Article V come from both political extremes, left and right. There’s little we can do to dissuade the leftists. They’re just don’t want a Balanced Budget Amendment .…
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A guest post from Tennessee State Senator Brian Kelsey, who is emerging as a leader in the Article V movement. P.S. – In my guest column in The Commercial Appeal,…
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You can look long and hard for facts, as opposed to opinions. In the media, the absence of actual facts to report is a void, filled by opinion. I’m getting…
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GovernmentLegal AffairsLiberty
More on Article V Justiciability: Dyer v. Blair
by Michael Stern March 6, 2017In my last post on the justiciability of Article V cases, we discussed the Supreme Court’s 1939 decision in Coleman v. Miller and whether that decision would be applied broadly…
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In drafting Article V, as with all of the Constitution, the Framers were succinct. Their plain words were clearly understood at the time. But the practice of politics and government…
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GovernmentLegal AffairsLiberty
Mark Levin Should Read the Federalist Papers
by Fritz Pettyjohn March 4, 2017The Article V movement owes a debt of gratitude to Mark Levin. His book, The Liberty Amendments, published in 2013, brought the issue to the attention of the conservative reading…
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GovernmentLegal AffairsLiberty
Article V and the Single Amendment Convention
by Michael Stern March 3, 2017Can an Article V convention for proposing amendments be limited to considering a single amendment specified by the state legislatures in their applications? Even within the relatively sparse literature on…
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Budgets/TaxesLegal AffairsLiberty
Texas Republicans Overwhelmingly Approve Article V into State’s Party Platform
by Kyle Maichle May 24, 2016On May 13, delegates to the state convention for the Republican Party of Texas approved a plank in the party’s platform that supports an Article V convention. The plank received…
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedLegal AffairsLibertyPolitics
Article V Convention Opponents Run into Stiff Headwinds Amid Increasing Support
by Kyle Maichle April 26, 2016A national debt of $20 trillion, along with the national government’s annual budget deficit of $500 billion, has led to increasing support for an Article V convention across the country. Many opponents of an Article V convention are now running into stiff headwinds.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Kyle Maichle: The Article V Convention Movement
by Kyle Maichle March 21, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in to a presentation given by Kyle Maichle – Project Manager of Constitutional Reform. Maichle is speaking to a tea party group based out of Princeton, Illinois, about an Article V Convention approach to reining in the national debt and the federal government.