Convention of States - Part 1

The Carmela Ciliberti Show

In this episode Carmela explores the proposed Article V Convention of the States recently contemplated in the Pennsylvania Legislature. The purpose of this exploration is to provide you the necessary historical evidence to evaluate the proposal and come to your own conclusion on the merits.
Sources:
Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, why Do We Keep Trying to Change It? By Richard B. Bernstein, Jerome Agel, Time Books, 1993

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume 40, Number 1, April 2017. Defying Conventional Wisdom: The Constitution Was Not The Product of a Runaway Convention By Michael Farris

http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/03/Farris_FINAL.pdf

The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution

Volume 1, By James Madison, United States. Constitutional Convention 1836

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Debates_in_the_Several_State_Convent/ZF00AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP11&printsec=frontcover

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Digital Edition, ed. John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber and Margaret A. Hogan. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.

https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/RNCN-00-00-02

Annals of Congress

https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

Proposed Amendments to the Articles of Confederation

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1587

Rhode Island in the Continental Congress: With the Journal of the Convention that Adopted the Constitution By William Read Staples

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZegKpSs4Km4C&lpg=PR46&ots=_v1oJJEXk1&dq=james%20manning%20rhode%20island%20constitutional%20convention&pg=PR46#v=onepage&q=james%20manning%20rhode%20island%20constitutional%20convention&f=false

The American Constitution – A Documentary Record – Ratification and Formation of the Government

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/constpap.asp

Convention of States

https://conventionofstates.com/