SHR Media Interviews Jeff Utsch at Freedom Fest (Part 2 of 2)
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SHR Media Talk Radio Interviews Nick Dranias at FreedomFest (Part 1 of 2)
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Wargaming the Compact's Safeguards
Get ready for some serious legalese. But if you follow the reasoning, you will be impressed with the extent of wargaming that has been invested in the safeguards of the Compact for America approach to Article V.
1) Because the Compact has no substantive effect until 38 states join it, the formation of the Compact does not cause a cognizable injury needed for standing to sue by Congress or non-member states until such time as a super-supermajority of states stand behind its
Balancing the Budget "Ultra Conservative?" NOT!
Local Public Radio in Florida recently declared that Compact for America initiative was "ultra conservative." You can read the piece and listen to the sound bite here. They're wrong. There's nothing "ultra conservative" about wanting to balance the federal budget. Just ask former U.S. Senator Paul Simon, whose early advocacy of a federal Balanced Budget Amendment was hardly an instance of "ultra conservativism." You can read about his principled policy stance here. Although t
Compact for America at the Cato Institute!
Watch Compact for America Educational Foundation President & Executive Director Nick Dranias, Council of Scholars Member Ilya Shapiro, and ARI scholar Onkar Ghate explain how to fix the national debt problem! #articleveducation #compactforamericacoreprinciples
Compact for America Goes to Washington!
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Courage, Not Fear Needs to Animate the Modern Day Patriot
In this speech to the Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley, Compact for America Educational Foundation Executive Vice President Jeff Utsch explains why patriots need to act, not fret, and how the Compact for a Balanced Budget fufills the Founders' intent. It is your support that makes presentations like this possible. Please make a generous gift to the Foundation! #compactfundraising #balancedbudgetamendmentmerits #compactmechanics #compactforamericacoreprinciples
Scalia Supports a Limited Article V Convention
The usual suspects who are opposed to organizing an Article V convention claim Justice Antonin Scalia supports their position. Like so many of the claims underpinning their opposition to an Article V convention, this claim is not true. Justice Scalia is very clearly on record as supporting an Article V convention limited to a specific issue or amendment. He only opposes a wide open Article V convention. Here is the proof: a partial transcript from the American Enterprise Inst
The Compact for a Balanced Budget Will Help Protect the Second Amendment
My name is Charles Heller, and I am one of four co-founders of the Arizona Citizens Defense League, the organization most responsible for Constitutional Carry in Arizona. I’m also the former Executive Director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, a no-compromise organization dedicated to eradicating gun control. JPFO is about the most ardent gun rights org in the country, and they picked me to lead it for a time. I’m not addressing you as a spokesman for either
The Article V Convention: An Instrumentality Directed by the Application
What follows is the latest research on Article V, which has not been specifically considered or addressed by any Article V opponent. What is significant about this research is that it shows conclusively that the Founders regarded the Article V convention to be an instrumentality of the states, which would be targeted by the states to proposing specific amendments specified in their application. The notion that an Article V convention would ordinarily be an autonomous sovereig
