Constitutional Law
Feb. 25, 2017
Let's amend Constitution to prohibit lame-duck pardons
One of the most disturbing things about constitutional law in the last half century is the paucity of constitutional amendments.
Mike Rappaport
Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law
Mike Rappaport is Darling Foundation professor of law at the University of San Diego, where he also serves as director of the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism.
I believe that the constitutional amendment process is essential to originalism and to a desirable constitutional law. One of the most disturbing things about constitutional law in the last half century is the paucity of constitutional amendments. No constitutional amendment has been proposed and ratified since the 26th Amendment guaranteeing the right to vote to 18 year olds was enacted in 1971. (The 27th Amendment was proposed in 1789 and ratified over two centuries, receiving its last...
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