Category: convention of the states

Our Quadrennial National Convention: The Electoral College

Commentary America has sponsored a constitutionally authorized national convention every four years since the founding of the Republic. All these conventions have done their jobs and honored their assigned agendas. Alarmists who claim a federal amendments convention would rage uncontrolled should remember the success of our quadrennial national conventions. We call them, collectively, the Electoral…


Opinion: Power Back to the People

Commentary “Power to the People” was a chant used by anti-war and civil rights protesters in the ’60s. John Lennon wrote a song with that title in 1971. The idea flowed from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution which begins, “We the People.” The concept behind that phrase was that the people, not the government, are sovereign…


Defending the Constitution: The Framers Did Not Violate Their Trust

Commentary This is the fifth in a series of essays defending the U.S. Constitution against common accusations against it. This essay examines the claim that that the framers—the Constitution’s drafters—staged a coup d’état by proposing a new Constitution. As usually stated, the allegation is that: The Confederation Congress adopted a resolution calling a convention limited…


The Solution Is a Convention of the States

Commentary This is the fifth essay in a five-part series. Almost immediately upon taking office, President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders wiping away the progress of the Trump era and resurrecting some of the worst abuses of the Obama era. In addition, he proposed massive new spending—and more national debt—to be added…