A convention of states is the only way to fix a profoundly broken Washington

Our democratic republic is in grave peril. The national debt, well more than $37 trillion, is now growing by one trillion in ...
Washington Monthly

The Great Might-Have-Been of the Constitutional Convention

The U.S. Senate and the nation's history might different if the Constitutional Convention had structured the chamber differently.

Opinion - A Constitutional Convention would be a constitutional crisis — states must say no

This is not a grassroots uprising. It is a top-down, money-driven operation led by political operatives that could lock an ...
The Hill

A Constitutional Convention would be a constitutional crisis — states must say no

Earlier this year, the Montana legislature almost took the whole country another step toward a constitutional crisis. A resolution that passed through a Senate committee before stalling on the floor ...

Opinion - Congress must right a past constitutional wrong

The National Federalism Commission released a report confirming that Congress should have called a Convention for Proposing ...
GoverningOpinion

Are States the Cause of Our Crumbling Democracy?

Too often, states are the chief culprit. Consider all the ways states serve to frustrate the will of the people. First, the ...

On this day: The Bill of Rights is set in motion

On this day in 1789, the Bill of Rights was sent to the states for ratification. With the right to free speech still hotly ...

Why free speech rights got left out of the Constitution – and added in later via the First Amendment

While bipartisan agreement may be rare, it’s not surprising that it came in defense of the First Amendment – and a popular TV show. A recent poll found that a whopping 90% of respondents called the ...

Secrets of a Radical Duke

Tall, rich, and beautiful, Richmond was hard to ignore. His eyes in particular were “superb,” as one contemporary remembered; ...