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Our Principles and Policies radio show for Saturday September 24, 2016. Barry Sheets and Chuck Michaelis deconstruct a presentation by Mark Meckler on the Convention of States Project (COSP) on attempts to call a new Constitutional Convention (disguised as a so-called “amendments convention) by supposedly “conservative” groups like COSP. There is a great deal of smoke generated in this interview but not much light. We supply the light.

Links- The Institute’s position on an Article V convention

What the state resolutions calling for the 1787 Constitutional Convention actually say with commentary

No, the founders did not monolithically agree that Article V was a “gift” to reign in federal power, nor did they agree what it all meant