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Federal Constitutional Convention

Federal Constitutional Convention: see Constitutional Convention.

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Con-Con Movement Returns: Some Proponents of a Federal Constitutional Amendment to Protect Traditional Marriage Are Considering Calling for a Dangerous Constitutional Convention to Accomplish Their Goal (The New American)

Con-Con Agenda out in the Open: Single-Issue Constitutional Conventions Have Been Repeatedly Proposed as the Answer to Solve Federal Failings. Now Convention Proponents Are Issuing Calls for Wholesale Remaking of the Constitution (The New American)

Threatening the Constitution: A Constitutional Convention Would Be an Ineffective and Risky Method for Getting the Federal Government Back under Control (The New American)

States Should Enforce, Not Revise, the Constitution! the States Should Rein in Our Out-of-Control Federal Government by Enforcing the Constitution through Nullification of Unconstitutional Federal Laws, Rather Than by Revising the Constitution through an Inherently Risky Constitutional Convention Process (The New American)

Sherman's Great Compromise: Roger Sherman's Brilliant Proposal Saved the 1787 Constitutional Convention from a Hopeless Deadlock and Safeguarded against Centralization of Power at the Federal Level (The New American)

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Renewed Push for a Con-Con: Calls for a Constitutional Convention Are Exercises in Misdirection. the Constitution Doesn't Need Fixing; Government Officials Who Violate It Need to Be Removed (The New American)

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