The Carmela Ciliberti Show
Convention of States - Part 1
In this episode Carmela explores the proposed Article V Convention of the States recently contemplated in the Pennsylvania Legislature. The purpose of this exploration is to provide you the necessary historical evidence to evaluate the proposal and come to your own conclusion on the merits.
Sources:
Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, why Do We Keep Trying to Change It? By Richard B. Bernstein, Jerome Agel, Time Books, 1993
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume 40, Number 1, April 2017. Defying Conventional Wisdom: The Constitution Was Not The Product of a Runaway Convention By Michael Farris
http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/03/Farris_FINAL.pdf
The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
Volume 1, By James Madison, United States. Constitutional Convention 1836
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Digital Edition, ed. John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber and Margaret A. Hogan. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.
https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/RNCN-00-00-02
Annals of Congress
https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Proposed Amendments to the Articles of Confederation
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1587
Rhode Island in the Continental Congress: With the Journal of the Convention that Adopted the Constitution By William Read Staples
The American Constitution – A Documentary Record – Ratification and Formation of the Government
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/constpap.asp
Convention of States
In this episode Carmela explores the proposed Article V Convention of the States recently contemplated in the Pennsylvania Legislature. The purpose of this exploration is to provide you the necessary historical evidence to evaluate the proposal and come to your own conclusion on the merits.
Sources:
Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, why Do We Keep Trying to Change It? By Richard B. Bernstein, Jerome Agel, Time Books, 1993
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume 40, Number 1, April 2017. Defying Conventional Wisdom: The Constitution Was Not The Product of a Runaway Convention By Michael Farris
http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/03/Farris_FINAL.pdf
The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
Volume 1, By James Madison, United States. Constitutional Convention 1836
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Digital Edition, ed. John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber and Margaret A. Hogan. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.
https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/RNCN-00-00-02
Annals of Congress
https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Proposed Amendments to the Articles of Confederation
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1587
Rhode Island in the Continental Congress: With the Journal of the Convention that Adopted the Constitution By William Read Staples
The American Constitution – A Documentary Record – Ratification and Formation of the Government
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/constpap.asp
Convention of States