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Heritage Foundation Paper Supports a ‘Convention of the States’

The movement for a national convention of states recently got a boost when a formerly skeptical national think tank issued a paper in support.
Heritage Foundation Paper Supports a ‘Convention of the States’
A copy of the U.S. Constitution in Washington on Dec. 17, 2019. Andrew Harnik/Pool/Getty Images
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The movement for a national convention of states recently got a boost when a formerly skeptical national think tank issued a paper in support.

Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” He also researched and wrote the scholarly article “Virgil and the Constitution,” whose publication is pending in Regent University Law Review.
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