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documents:cosproject:surge:article_7-mythrunawayamendconvention [2018/03/25 12:08] Oliver Wolcottdocuments:cosproject:surge:article_7-mythrunawayamendconvention [2018/03/26 10:25] Oliver Wolcott
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 {{:documents:cosproject:surge:surge-7-1.png?800|The Founders created the convention for precisely the kind of situation we face now.}} {{:documents:cosproject:surge:surge-7-1.png?800|The Founders created the convention for precisely the kind of situation we face now.}}
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 ===== The Myth of a Runaway Amendments Convention ===== ===== The Myth of a Runaway Amendments Convention =====
 **Robert Natelson, Independence Institute’s Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence and Head of the Institute’s Article V Information Center** **Robert Natelson, Independence Institute’s Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence and Head of the Institute’s Article V Information Center**
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 {{:documents:cosproject:surge:surge-7-2.png?800|In any political procedure, there are always uncertainties, but in this case they are far fewer than predicted by anti-convention alarmists.}} {{:documents:cosproject:surge:surge-7-2.png?800|In any political procedure, there are always uncertainties, but in this case they are far fewer than predicted by anti-convention alarmists.}}
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 The state legislatures’ applications fix the subject-matter for a convention for proposing amendments. When two-thirds of the states apply on a given subject, Congress must call the convention. However, the congressional call is limited to the time and place of meeting, and to reciting the state-determined subject. The state legislatures’ applications fix the subject-matter for a convention for proposing amendments. When two-thirds of the states apply on a given subject, Congress must call the convention. However, the congressional call is limited to the time and place of meeting, and to reciting the state-determined subject.
  
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