Article Five of the United States Constitution

portion of the US Constitution regarding amendments

The proper way to amend the Constitution

Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe reminds us that even if we dislike current proposals to amend the U.S. Constitution, we should applaud those members of Congress who are pursuing…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

NC House Member’s don’t support Balanced Budget Amendment or do They?

The calendar has come out for the House Committee on Judiciary Subcommittee B, and on the docket is House Joint Resolution 374, Rescind Constitutional Convention Calls. This is a serious…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Article V: The powerful tool we (state legislators) never use

This is a guest post from State Senator Curtis Olafson (North Dakota). For more on the NDRA, please see my recent blog post which includes links to a variety of sources…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Money is Not the Root of All Evil

View in your browser. Applying wisdom from the wealthy to government The author of How Rich People Think spent decades interviewing millionaires and establishing what makes their thinking patterns distinct.…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Enough pointing fingers at federal debt: The states can stop it

Recklessness regarding growth in federal debt has been bipartisan, particularly since the year 2000. The prevailing debt limit is just a charade; congressional representatives have raised it 75 times since…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Federal Fiscal Impotence and a State-Led Solution

View in your browser. United States voters overwhelmingly support a constitutional constraint on the federal government’s spending. The sentiment is so bipartisan that 49 of the 50 states even have…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Yes, the long-run has arrived: annual interest on national debt pushing half a trillion dollars

Yesterday the Heritage Foundation announced the milestone of 1,000 days without a federal budget. Along with a video, reposted below, the writer Mike Brownfield noted more than $200 billion in annual…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Conference on the Constitutional Convention

Harvard University Law School recently held an historic conference, one where the participants debated and projected the growing prospect of an “amendments” or “constitutional” convention. Article V grants state legislatures authority…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Ferg on Free Markets with Mike Beitler: Article V, Occupy Wall Street, and Immigration Trends

This week, Mike Beitler of Voice America Business invited me on for an examination of Article V and the National Debt Relief Amendment, the Occupy Wall Street protests (with Greece…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Laying Article V fears to rest

Unfortunately, federal legislators continue to give bipartisan support to deficit spending. This is predictable, since they use the debt-enabled money to buy votes and extend their power into state activity.…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Historic tactic against federal debt crisis gains further support

In the past two weeks, the National Debt Relief Amendment (NDRA)–what would be the first state-initiated amendment since original ratification–has attracted new legislative sponsors in four states: Montana, Ohio, Texas,…

Elections & Public Integrity

If the Constitution is so great, why amend it?

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has generated criticism from the political Left for his support of as many as seven proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution — to end lifetime tenure…