Word: conventioners
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Dirksen's vehicle is a section of Article V of the Constitution, never before invoked. It specifies that "on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states," Congress "shall call a convention for proposing amendments." Before becoming part of the Constitution, provisions advanced by the...
Court Challenges. With little publicity-and a minimum of public hearings-33 state legislatures have voted convention applications and submitted them to Congress. One more petition is all that is technically needed to call a convention. Before they recessed recently, both the Delaware and Wisconsin legislatures were considering resolutions.
If it is ever actually assembled, a convention would ostensibly concern itself only with the so-called Dirksen amendment, which has been defeated twice in the Senate. The measure would reverse the court decision and permit election of one house of a bicameral state legislature on a basis other than...
Personal Calls. Another basis for challenge is the inconsistent wording of the various petitions. Some call for the removal of state legislatures from the jurisdiction of federal courts. Others ask for a specific amendment ruling out constitutional restrictions on legislative apportionment. Democratic Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, who favors...
They live in overmortgaged, underserviced blue-collar ghet tos where they pay a stiffer price - in poor schools, en croaching throughways and war casualties - than do affluent whites across the city lines. Most of them still believe in God, country, the work ethic and a sexual standard that calls for...