By Dr. Marshall DeRosa
Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University
Senior Fellow, The James Madison Institute
Abstract
This white paper focuses on the necessity of a balanced budget constitutional amendment convention by considering (a) the severity of the fiscal crisis, (b) the corresponding political crisis compounding the problem, (c) the Article V constitutional response to both the fiscal and political crises as intended by the Framers, (d) the US Supreme Court’s political questions doctrine regarding a constitutional amendment convention, and (e) Senator Sam Ervin’s statutory guidelines for operationalizing an Article V constitutional amendment convention. In the absence of an Article V balanced budget constitutional amendment convention, thereby restoring fiscal sanity to national policy, budget deficits and their progeny the national debt will rapidly increase and American prosperity relinquished.
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Is It Time for a Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment Convention? (PDF)
