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| - | //Article V’s convention process is part of the beautiful constitutional machinery built to protect the states and the people from an overreaching federal government.// | ||
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| ===== Five Myths About An Article V Convention ===== | ===== Five Myths About An Article V Convention ===== | ||
| **Rita Dunaway, Esq., National Legislative Strategist for the Convention of States Project** | **Rita Dunaway, Esq., National Legislative Strategist for the Convention of States Project** | ||
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| - | //The process is so well-safeguarded that it has proven incredibly difficult to invoke.// | ||
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| Moreover, this proposition makes no sense from a historical, practical or legal perspective. In every interstate convention ever held, there was //always// a specified topic or agenda for the meeting. Practically speaking, some limitation on the topic is necessary in order for the state legislatures to provide instructions to the delegates they send as their agents (states always instruct their delegates). | Moreover, this proposition makes no sense from a historical, practical or legal perspective. In every interstate convention ever held, there was //always// a specified topic or agenda for the meeting. Practically speaking, some limitation on the topic is necessary in order for the state legislatures to provide instructions to the delegates they send as their agents (states always instruct their delegates). | ||
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