REBUTTING NICK DRANIAS’ REBUTTAL 10 Facts – to Rebut the Mythology of a Runaway Convention at an Amendment Convention Prepared by Nick Dranias, Director, Center for Constitutional Government at the Goldwater Institute Distributed by Ron Bartels, Ph.D., Article V Proponent 1. Article V does not authorize a constitutional convention; it authorizes a […]
The state of Montana needs our help in contacting their legislators to vote “NO” on an Article V Amendments Convention, which leads to a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con). Montana Needs You! SJ5: A joint resolution of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the State of Montana providing for the application for an Amendments Convention to […]
Without your help we could be Con-Conned Out of our 2nd Amendment Rights to Keep and Bear Arms Several states have introduced bills allegedly nullifying federal gun laws and rejecting Obama’s Executive Order mandating such. The message is basically “You aren’t going to get our 2nd Amendment!” . There are other bills nullifying Obamacare, the NDAA (indefinite detention of American […]
BEWARE: SJR1 by Senator Rapert Is a Call for a Constitutional Convention Barry Goldwater said: “[I am] totally opposed [to a Constitutional Convention]…We may wind up with a Constitution so far different from that we have lived under for two hundred years that the Republic might not be able to continue.” Letter from Chief Justice […]
By Jackie Patru (revised and updated January, 2001) Under article V of the Constitution, our founding fathers established two methods for future generations to add amendments to the Constitution. Under method 1: Two-thirds of both houses of Congresscan propose an amendment, and then three-fourths of the states ratify it… or not. Under method […]