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Marquette University Law School

2020

Constitution

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Is The Constitution’S Convention For Proposing Amendments A “Mystery”? Overlooked Evidence In The Narrative Of Uncertainty, Robert G. Natelson Jan 2020

Is The Constitution’S Convention For Proposing Amendments A “Mystery”? Overlooked Evidence In The Narrative Of Uncertainty, Robert G. Natelson

Marquette Law Review

Since the 1960s, leading academics and other commentators have claimed that the composition and protocols of the Constitution’s “Convention for proposing Amendments” are unknowable, subject to congressional control, or both. Today those claims are on a collision course with growing public sentiment for an amendments convention to address federal dysfunction.