How to Amend the Constitution Safely and Without Congress — According to the Founders
Would you like to see a constitutional amendment balancing the budget, imposing term limits, allowing the states to veto federal regulations — or for any other reason?
Then check out Amending the Constitution by Convention – A More Complete View of the Founders’ Plan. It is the first of my “how to” Issue Papers on obtaining needed constitutional amendments without the consent of Congress.
Our friends at the Goldwater Institute originally published an earlier version of this paper. But now it has been updated and supplemented especially for Independence Institute readers!
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The Fascinating Story of How the States Used the Constitution’s Amendment Procedure to Adopt Reform, 1789-1913 | Our American Constitution on
Thu, 15th Sep 2011 11:49 am
[...] Common sense tells us that an out-of-control Congress is not going to rein in its own power. The American Founders predicted this might become the case, so they provided a way by which the state legislatures could propose and ratify corrective constitutional am…. [...]
