For years, the preemption doctrine and the anticommandeering doc-trine lived in an uneasy
tension, with each threatening to consume the other. On the one hand, preemption permits …

DURING the five year period following VJ Day, more than 150 resolutions were introduced
in Congress calling for the amendment of the Federal Constitution. In 1947, an amendment …

ORITY OF SUCCESSIVE, ASSIGNEES-Modern business transactions could not be successfully
effected without the aid of free and flex-ible credit. To meet this increasing demand for …

368 KENTUCKY LAW JOUNAL tions would seem to be those committed to other than judicial
organs of government, not in terms excluding judicial control, but with respect to issues so …

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose
amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the …

In a decision'accompanied by a series of opinions last Term, the Supreme Court put a new
complexion on the legal features of the process of amending the Constitution. Hitherto the …

The right to amend the United States Constitution is a power expressly reserved to the
legislature in Article V of the Constitution. 1 In Coleman v. Miller, 2 the Supreme Court of the …

This Article examines the paradoxical world of Article V-the amending power of the
Constitution-in light of the recent ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). It explores the …

Genesis of Article Five'The idea of amending the organic instrument of a state is peculiarly
American. Although many of our political and legal institutions take their origin from English …

Over the past few years a number of congressmen have attempted to vindicate their rights as
individual legislators by bringing suit against the executive branch.'These actions have met …