Article V and the Compact for a Balanced Budget

Speaker:

• Nick Dranias - President and Executive Director Compact for America to Fix the Federal Debt

Can We Really Ratify a State-Originated Federal Balanced Budget Amendment by the End of Next Year?

The answer is yes, according to Compact for America Educational Foundation President & Constitutional Scholar Nick Dranias .

Join the John Locke Foundation and the Triangle Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society as Nick explains how Congress is poised to introduce a single Congressional resolution that will activate an existing agreement among the States called the “Compact for a Balanced Budget,” which targets, safeguards and dramatically streamlines the origination and ratification of a constitutional amendment via a convention of the states.

Nick Dranias is President & Executive Director within the Office of the President of Compact for America Educational Foundation, Inc. which is a 501(c)(3) charity that focuses on educating citizens and statesmen about the power of interstate compacts to achieve constitutional amendments and other reforms. 

Nick serves as an expert with the Heartland Institute and the Federalist Society. He is also an Advisory Council member for Our America Initiative. He previously served as General Counsel, Steering Committee Member, Policy Development Director, and Constitutional Policy Director for the Goldwater Institute, where he held the Clarence J. and Katherine P. Duncan Chair for Constitutional Government and directed the Joseph and Dorothy Donnelly Moller Center for Constitutional Government. Dranias led the Goldwater Institute’s successful challenge to Arizona’s system of government campaign financing to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Nick remains "Of Counsel" for the Institute in representing the City of Tombstone in a fight to protect its 130 year old municipal water supply from U.S. Forest Service overreach. Dranias also serves as a constitutional scholar, authoring scholarly articles dealing with a wide spectrum of issues in constitutional and regulatory policy. His articles have been published by leading law reviews, bar journals and think tanks across the country. Dranias’ latest significant works are In Defense of Private Civic Engagement (forthcoming Cato Institute) and Introducing "Article V 2.0:" The Compact for a Balanced Budget (Heartland Institute/Federalist Society).

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