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Myth and Misdirection in Constitutional Amendment

—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Cross-posted from Cognoscenti. There is a constitutional amendment for every problem in the United States, or so politicians would have us believe. Is it your view that abortion is unraveling the moral fabric of America? Somewhere, a conservative politician is campaigning for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion with

Published on October 31, 2013
Author: Richard Albert Filed under: Analysis

Tags: Amendment Difficulty, Article V, constitutional amendment, Informal Amendments, Judicial Interpretation

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