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87 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 415 (2009-2010)
Selling Ourselves into Slavery: An Originalist Defense of Tacit Substantive Limits to the Article V Amendment Process and the Double-Entendre of Unalienable

handle is hein.journals/udetmr87 and id is 426 raw text is: Selling Ourselves into Slavery: An Originalist Defense of Tacit Substantive Limits to the Article V Amendment Process and the Double-Entendre of Unalienable LANDON W. MAGNUSSON* TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT .............................................. ......416 INTRODUCTION ................................................416 I. ARTICLE V LIMITATIONS ....................................419 A. Amending Written Constitutions .................419 B. Article V and Explicit Limits ...................421 C. Implied Structural Limits.......................423 II. BEYOND ARTICLE V: THE CONSTITUTION OF OUR CONSTITUTION ....................................... ......424 A. . . . That They Are Endowed By Their Creator with Certain Unalienable Rights : The Double-entendre of Unalienable ......................... ......426 B. Primary Objections to Unalienability: Going Back to Locke ..................................431 C. Secondary Objections to Unalienability: The Federal- State Double Standard................. .......434 D. Tertiary Objections to Unalienability: Does the Rhetoric Translate into Rules? ..................436 III. ENFORCING ARTICLE V'S IMPLICIT LIMITS............. ......437 A. The Supreme Court's Role in Enforcement .... .....438 B. Constitutional Self-Policing: Enforcement and Emoluments ......................... ......440 1. The Independent Interpretation of the President.... 441 * J.D. 2010, J. Reuben Clark Law School-Brigham Young University. I would like to thank Professors Frederick M. Gedicks and Kif Augustine-Adams for their helpful insight while writing this Article.

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