Chief Justice Earl Warren sounded an alarm in April. Speaking at Duke University, Warren warned against a spreading movement for adoption of three "states' rights" amendments to the U.S. Constitution that would:
1) Enable the legislatures of two-thirds of the states to propose constitutional amendments, which, "without further action by Congress," would go into effect upon ratification by three-quarters of the states. The Constitution provides that upon "application" by two-thirds of the states, Congress "shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments." The amendment would abolish the convention clause, make it theoretically...
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