Redistricting Debacle Proves GOP Is Too Squishy For An Article V Convention
Given current political divisions, an Article V convention of states would do more harm than good at solving the nation’s problems.
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The Balancing Budget Conundrum
Our nation’s debt is out of control. We are currently $38.4 trillion in debt, which amounts to $288,000 per household in the United States.
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Eagle Forum Will Never Burn Our Legacy of Liberty
In his July 10, 2025, commentary, “Calling On The Eagle Forum To Add to Its Legacy of Liberty,” RealClearMarkets Editor John Tamny seeks Eagle Forum’s support of a constitutional convention (aka Con-Con) with the goal of pushing Congress to support term limits for the federal legislature.
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Emergency! Ask Members to Vote In-Person!
Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna has filed a discharge petition (with 11 other Republicans) to force the GOP Leadership to vote on a Democrat Resolution that will allow proxy (remote) voting for 12 weeks for any Member if they or their spouse gives birth.
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Article V Convention is a Threat to the Electoral College
There is a well-financed movement to circumvent the Electoral College by having State Legislatures pass the National Popular Vote Compact. To date, Sixteen States and the District of Columbia have passed the National Popular Vote Compact representing 205 electoral votes of the 270 votes needed to elect a President and for the National Popular Vote Compact to take effect.
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The Dangers of an Article V Constitutional Convention – What You Need to Know
Watch this video and read important info explaining the dangers of an Article V Constitutional Convention.
Continue reading →Failed Republicans Want to Rewrite the Constitution
Did you ever wonder why unsuccessful candidates merely “suspend” their campaigns after losing a key primary, instead of terminating them?
Continue reading →Unexpected Suggestions for Constitutional Changes
It looks like all sorts of people are joining the game of rewriting parts of the U.S. Constitution. It started with state legislators who apparently had time on their hands, and now it’s even extended to U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
Continue reading →The Article V Convention to Propose Constitutional Amendments: Contemporary Issues for Congress
Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides two methods by which the nation’s founding charter may be amended. The first, Amendment by Congressional Proposal, requires the adoption of an amendment or amendments by a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress; the second, generally referred to as the “Article V Convention” method, authorizes the states to apply to Congress for a convention for proposing an amendment or amendments. If the legislatures of two-thirds of the states, 34 at present, do, in fact, apply for a convention, Congress is obliged to convene one. Both methods then require the approval of three-fourths of the states, 38 at present, in order to become part of the Constitution.
Continue reading →Mischief-Making about the Constitution
Attacks on the U.S. Constitution are coming from all sides. There are many pressure groups that just don’t like our U.S. Constitution, even though it is the longest lasting Constitution in history and has enabled us to prosper with 43 peaceful changes of government. Back in the 1970s, powerful and highly placed U.S. officials made a strenuous effort to change us into a parliamentary system of government. The global government-oriented Council on Foreign Relations has said that the provision it despises the most is the treaty clause, which requires the vote of two-thirds of Senators to ratify a treaty.
Continue reading →How Do They Come Up With So Many Bad Ideas?
Moving quietly under cover of presidential debates and the enormous publicity given to the race for the Republican nomination is a plan to change how U.S. Presidents are elected. It would bypass the procedure spelled out in the U.S. Constitution which has been used successfully for over two centuries.
Continue reading →A Warning About Things to Come
Have you seen the television pictures of the tens of thousands of demonstrators at the Wisconsin State Capitol who are protesting proposed budget cuts for state employees?
Continue reading →Obama versus ‘We the People’
Americans were treated to welcome entertainment during the dog days of summer as we watched the Democrats wring their hands over Barack Obama’s tone deafness about political reality.
Continue reading →Good Advice Against a Con Con
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.
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Letters from retired Chief Justice Warren Burger opposing a Constitutional Convention:
“You wish to know my sentiments on the project of another general Convention as suggested by New York. I shall give them to you with great frankness . . .3. If a General Convention were to take place for the avowed and sole purpose of revising the Constitution, it would naturally consider itself as having a greater latitude than the Congress appointed to administer and support as well as to amend the system; it would consequently give greater agitation to the public mind; an election into it would be courted by the most violent partizans on both sides; it wd. probably consist of the most heterogeneous characters; would be the very focus of that flame which has already too much heated men of all parties; would no doubt contain individuals of insidious views, who under the mask of seeking alterations popular in some parts but inadmissible in other parts of the Union might have a dangerous opportunity of sapping the very foundations of the fabric. Under all these circumstances it seems scarcely to be presumeable that the deliberations of the body could be conducted in harmony, or terminate in the general good. Having witnessed the difficulties and dangers experienced by the first Convention which assembled under every propitious circumstance, I should tremble for the result of a Second, meeting in the present temper of America, and under all the disadvantages I have mentioned. . . .I am Dr. Sir, Yours Js. Madison Jr”
James Madison letter to George Turberville, 2 November 1788
The following states have rescinded their resolutions calling for a Con Con:
- Americans Should Protect the Constitution, Not Put It at Risk
- Article V Con-Con Proponents Want to “Clarify” the Second Amendment, 10-11-17
- Article V Balanced Budget Amendment EQUALS Massive Spending Cuts and Massive Tax Increases in the States, 1-24-17
- Top 10 Reasons Against ConCon, 7-15-16
- WARNING! Republican Establishment Now Seeking an Article V Constitutional Convention, By Janine Hansen, Eagle Forum National Constitutional Issues Chairman
- Convention of States Reveals their Revolutionary Agenda: An Unlimited Convention to Structurally Change the U.S. Constitution, By Janine Hansen, Eagle Forum National Constitutional Issues Chairman, 4-05-16
- Meckler’s Flip Flop on Article V, 2016
- Analysis of the Compact for America for a Balanced Budget, 3-02-16
- Why Oppose an Article V Convention?, 1-10-16
- UPDATE: Article V Convention: Pouring Gasoline on the Burning Constitution, 1-10-16
- Can we Limit the Amendments proposed by an Article V Constitutional Convention of the States?, 1-10-16
- Janine Hansen, Eagle Forum, National Constitutional Issues Chairman testimony before the Pennsylvania House State Government Committee, 4-13-2015
- Tulsa World Editorial: Constitutional convention a bad idea, 3-31-2015
- Article V Convention: Pouring Gasoline on the Burning Constitution