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Anybody going to FreedomFest 2009?
Started Jun 6
Tools for federalismamendment.com
Started Jun 3
Arguments against a con-con that will need to be addressed
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FreedonFest is a somewhat regular conference of mostly libertarian and conservative reformers. It might provide a good recruiting opportunity and a chance for many of us to meet and discuss in person. This year's conference is at Bally's in Las Vega…
No feedback yet. I don't consider them ready for that. Drafting the language of an amendment requires a period of discussion and revision until I can be fairly sure it will do what I want and is not readily misconstrued. That is why I ask for commen…
Not a big fan of the Constitution?!? Wow, that's quite an admission.
Unfortunately, the departures from constitutional compliance that we have to undo are also many, and to omit any leaves holes through which the vermin can infest the building.
I'm not a real big fan of the Constitution to begin with and, in one sen…
What we are embarked on is not going to be easy. There is a good book by historican Michael Kammen, A Machine That Would Go of Itself (1994), that describes many such efforts over the history of the United States. I recommend it to everyone to gete…
I came here to find answers to these questions. At this time, our Constitution is not working. Our Administration is shredding it. We need a Constitutional Lawyer to compete with what is sitting as our President. I want guarantees that Congress will…
Note that a key element of my approach is to make structural and procedural reforms that open the System to intervention by outsiders. It doesn't work to just declare a right in an environment in which legislators and judges are determined to allow…
That has been part of my more complete proposals in the past. See the ones I proposed as an initiative in California. But I feel a need to keep these as pithy as possible. I am already getting complaints that they are too many. Unfortunately, the de…
I like it. The only thing I would add is to give juries the right to submit questions to witnesses, and to give them the power to subpoena evidence and testimony. This may give juries the right to examine evidence that has been excluded, but either…
What the Friends of the Article V Convention are counting are many different petitions with different proposed amendments. It is more meaningful to count the number that are demanding each specific amendment. For example, a leading proposed amendmen…
In New Jersey technically the legislature is always in session. The beginning and ending dates of each session correspond to the second Tuesday in January. Legislation can be introduced up until the last five minutes of a session. There is a summer…
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Jon Roland's Clarifying Amendments
See http://www.constitution.org/reform/us/con_amend.htm for the latest and more complete version.
This is a collection of draft amendments to the Constitution for the United States. It is subject to frequent additions and revisions, so readers may want to revisit often.
It is not proposed that state legislatures petition Congress to call a constitutional convention, but rather that they propose identical amendments to Congress t… Continue
This is a collection of draft amendments to the Constitution for the United States. It is subject to frequent additions and revisions, so readers may want to revisit often.
It is not proposed that state legislatures petition Congress to call a constitutional convention, but rather that they propose identical amendments to Congress t… Continue
Posted on June 3, 2009 at 11:13am — 6 Comments
Randy Barnett's Bill of Federalism
http://www.federalismamendment.com/
The Bill of Federalism
Resolution for Congress to Convene a Convention to Propose Amendments Constituting a Bill of Federalism
Whereas Article I of the Constitution of the United States begins "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States"; and
Whereas the Congress of the United States has exceeded the legislative powers granted in the Constit… Continue
The Bill of Federalism
Resolution for Congress to Convene a Convention to Propose Amendments Constituting a Bill of Federalism
Whereas Article I of the Constitution of the United States begins "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States"; and
Whereas the Congress of the United States has exceeded the legislative powers granted in the Constit… Continue
Posted on June 3, 2009 at 10:30am —
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