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September 17 — Constitution Day

Federal law makes it mandatory for all schools to teach about the Constitution on Constitution Day, which is September 17, or during Constitution Week if it falls on a weekend, as it does this year. It would be a good idea for you to check with your local public school and see how it is [...]

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A Plunge into Constitutional Chaos

Several state legislatures are considering resolutions to use a never-before-used power in our Constitution’s Article V to petition Congress to call a new national convention to amend the U.S. Constitution. Most of these resolutions say they want the convention to consider only the one amendment that state is pushing. However, various state resolutions are supporting [...]

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A Letter from Phyllis Schlafly

We face a big, big threat in many states, and it’s up to Eagle Forum to take on this battle. Resolutions have been introduced in many state legislatures asking Congress to call a Constitutional Convention, an Amendment Convention, or an Article V Convention. (Those all mean the same thing.) If they get 2/3rds of the [...]

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ALERT: Good Advice Against a Con Con

By Phyllis Schlafly Suggestions that the United States call a new constitutional convention, as allowed in the Constitution’s Article V, have popped up in some state legislatures and even on a page in the Wall Street Journal. No longer do these voices claim a convention can be limited to consideration of a single amendment (e.g., [...]

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Our Dying Constitution — and How to Revive It, II

As the elections of 2010 loom closer, the politics of Barack Obama’s reign are a swirling miasma in which many of the American electorate are caught up. But the most critical issue in this elections — as in American politics and law in general — is the continuous dying process of our venerable Constitution and [...]

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