The Ultimate Compact for America Pitch! Seven Reasons Why the Compact for a Balanced Budget is Best
Why the Compact for America approach makes the most sense: Speed The Compact approach was designed specifically to ratify a powerful constitutional amendment in as few as twelve months! With 4 states already on board, the Compact approach is only 34 state enactments, 1 congressional resolution, and one 24-hour convention away from ratifying a powerful Balanced Budget Amendment that you can actually read today (here is our one page BBA analysis and one page Compact outline).
Compact for America Vice President Nick Dranias Debates Sheriff Mack on Article V!
Above is Nick's 10 minute opening presentation. Below is the immediately following Q&A among participants including Sheriff Mack. And below that is the continuation of the Q&A session. * * * With a contribution of $1, $5, $10 or more, you can help us send scholars to up to 10 states to spread the word about Compact for America! If you have not done so already, please visit the Compact for America website and load up on intellectual ammunition. Please show your support for the
Cato's Ilya Shapiro Says Compact for a Balanced Budget Now! Heartland Institute Asks Why.
Heartland Institute Daily Podcast! Listen to Cato Institute Constitutional Scholar Ilya Shapiro explain the Article V amendment process and why he supports the Compact for a Balanced Budget approach most of all! * * * With a contribution of $1, $5, $10 or more, you can help us send scholars to up to 10 states to spread the word about Compact for America! If you have not done so already, please visit the Compact for America website and load up on intellectual ammunition. Pleas
What About Congress? Only Compact for America Keeps its Head Out of the Sand
There are those in the Article V movement who claim that Congress is irrelevant to the amendment process. The only problem with this contention is that most folks interested in Article V can read. The text of Article V clearly gives Congress two significant points of political leverage. Congress is empowered to call the convention; and Congress is empowered to select the mode of ratification. Clearly, Congress is not irrelevant to Article V, even though its role was meant onl
Advance Arkansas Joins the Compact's Educational Push!
Dan Greenberg, CEO of the pre-eminent Arkansas-based think tank, writes: "After we ran our piece yesterday about Mike Farris’s appearances in Arkansas next week, it occurred to me that we ought to make it clear that Farris’s approach to Article V activism isn’t the only path to federal constitutional reform. The following is a guest editorial from Nick Dranias of the Goldwater Institute, who presents his own take on Article V strategies below." Read more: Introducing “Article
What Makes the Compact Uniquely Effective?
Here is what makes the Compact for a Balanced Budget different from all other state-originated constitutional amendment efforts and uniquely effective: The Compact's federal Balanced Budget Amendment is already drafted and included in its agreement among the states, its policy merits can be verified as powerful and politically plausible. The same is not true of any other significant Article V effort, all of which must first organize a convention to find out what it might prop
The Compact for a Balanced Budget Minimizes Litigation Risks - Excerpts from Cato Institute Scholar
My name is Ilya Shapiro. I am a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and the editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. I am also a member of the Advisory Council for Compact for America. Before joining Cato, I was a special assistant/advisor to the Multi-National Force in Iraq on rule of law issues and practiced international, political, and commercial litigation. I have provided testimony to Congress and state legislatures and, as coordin
Eagle Forum concerns instrumental in the development of the Compact for America Initiative by CFA CE
For the past 30 years, the Eagle Forum organization has consistently and effectively argued against the use of Article V of U.S. Constitution by the states to propose amendments. The Eagle Forum objections, as outlined in their publication entitled “Twenty Questions about a Constitutional Convention,” address the vagueries associated with the planning and conduct of the convention, such as how delegates are to be selected, who determines the number of delegates to each state
Which Article V Effort is Leading?
That's right. If you measure by distance to the goal of a ratified amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Compact for a Balanced Budget is clearly in the lead. It is entirely plausible that our effort could secure a federal Balanced Budget Amendment by July 4, 2017, if not sooner. But even if the other movements catch up, the Compact can roll with them too. Why? Because each time the Compact is passed into law, the powerful federal Balanced Budget Amendment it carries is simulta
