Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Tag: United States Constitution Article V

  • The Curious Conservatism of Constitutional Amendment Politics in the United States

    —Andrea Scoseria Katz, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. For more information about our four columnists for 2020, please click here.] A few days ago, an email popped into my inbox.

  • The Modern Liberum Veto

    —Richard Albert, Boston College Law School For many, the bête noire in the United States Constitution is Article V. Sanford Levinson says that it “brings us all too close to the Lockean dream (or nightmare) of changeless stasis.” Bruce Ackerman calls it an “obsolescent obstacle course.”