Holding an Article V [FN1] convention would be folly, as a better understanding of facts from our country’s founding disclose. As we embark on a review of that history, in this series of blogs, Indiana provides an example of the dangers posed by an Article V convention. 1/8

By statute, IN’s Lt Governor would chair that convention. [FN2] IN’s Lt Gov is Micah Beckwith, a self-described Christian nationalist. [FN3] “The empirically supported definition of ‘Christian nationalism’ used by…

May 22, 7:14 pm, EST, White House: In a series of posts on the social media platform he owns, the President has addressed the most recent concerns about what some say are his attempts to grab power and consolidate that power. 1/7

“I have a mandate from the America people from three landslide victories in 2016, 2020 and 2024. There were many, many concerns. Sleepy Joe Biden left our economy in shambles, prices were sky high and we were a LAUGHING STOCK stock in foreign affairs.…

A disclaimer is a “statement that one is not responsible for or involved with something, or that one has no knowledge of it.” [FN1] A disclaimer for a work of fiction usually appears at the front of the book, either on the same page as boring publication dates, copy rights and 1/12

call numbers (either Dewey or LC) or on its own page and says something like: “This is a work of fiction; any similarities between characters or events herein & persons living or dead or actual events…

At the 1787 convention in Philadelphia, [FN1] compromises “had” to be made or else the 13 States might split, as James Madison said, “between states ‘having or not having slaves.” [FN2] The Framers “believed that concessions on slavery were” necessary for 1/9

“support of southern delegates” and if the slave trade was restricted, Georgia & S. Carolina would refuse to join. [FN3] Only euphemisms, not the word “slave,” appear in the Constitution. Madison refers to ‘the barbarism of…