Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opponents dispute the convention on two distinct grounds. Sensibly, they say that the Constitution is no place to mandate a specific economic policy. If the budget-balancers succeed, they would join the distinguished company of slaveholders and Prohibitionists, the only other groups ever to write their interests into the Constitution...
This attack on the warhorse of liberals' economic policy is undoubtedly what has inspired their overstated attack against a national convention-- that it might create a constitutional mess, or even run amuck and try to rewrite the entire document. An Article V convention would face a variety of procedural problems...
BUT THE ALARM continues, and the constitutional argument dominates the controversy. The legal questions are numerous--a memo prepared by Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, which the White House is distributing, lists 21 separate ones, all of which it calls "unanswerable." But the most important one--the one...
Tribe holds that since the Constitution does not explicitly state who controls a convention's agenda, the convention and Congress would probably bicker. Bruce Ackerman, professor of law at Yale, takes an even stronger position in this week's New Republic, maintaining that Article V conventions must be open to...
Actually, the working lawyers who would have to thrash out a conventions procedures do not share the professors' fears. Attorney General Griffin Bell has said that he believes Congress could limit a convention's agenda; an American Bar Association study from 1974 agrees, as long as Congress passes the necessary...