Trump, Brexit … and now the constitutional convention movement
Heartland Institute expert calls for states to ‘resist federal overreach’
BOB UNRUH
WND.com
July 20, 2016
There was the Brexit movement with all of its fallout. Much still to come.
Right now, there is the Donald Trump movement and what that could mean to the United States.
And soon, the push for a constitutional Article V convention may be in the same classification.
“This is a movement,” spokesman Mark Meckler of the Convention of the States told WND on Wednesday.
Eight states already have adopted a call to Congress for such a convention, the group now has supporters in every state legislative district in the nation, and 1.45 million activists are working on the project.
The idea is that the nation has gone so far off the rails that the states need to come together, recommend amendments to the Constitution and set some new boundaries for the bureaucracies, the executives, the judges, even the lawmakers in Washington.
That idea is the focus of a new policy brief from The Heartland Institute’s Robert Natelson, a senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence there. He also was a professor of law for 25 years and taught First Amendment and constitutional history, among others.
The Rest…HERE
