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Is an Article V Amendments Convention in Your Future?
Tom Llewellyn is Publishing Editor, Fix the Debt Gazette and Legislative Outreach Director, Let Us Vote for a Fiscal Responsibility Amendment. With inflation stubbornly high, interest rates rising,…
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How to Address Federal Dysfunction
The ALEC Center to Restore the Balance of Government released a series of videos to educate state lawmakers on how to use Article V of the Constitution to call for…
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ALEC Amicus Brief Asks Supreme Court to Set Clear Guidelines and Protect State Authority in Redistricting Process
Earlier this week, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court, asking it to protect state legislatures’ constitutional authority to create…
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Can States Determine Who Represents Them in Federal Courts?
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard a case about whether states legislatures can represent the interests of a state in federal court when a party challenges the constitutionality…
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Courts Should Not Use Federal Procedural Rules to Diminish State Laws
This week, the American Legislative Exchange Council informed the U.S. Supreme Court in an amicus brief filed in Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP that state…
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A Victory for Liberty: SCOTUS Blocks Employer Vaccine Requirement
In a widely anticipated ruling last week, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s vaccine mandate for large employers, writing that the federal government had overstepped its authority. The…
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40th Anniversary of Reagan’s Economic Recovery Tax Act
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Economic Recovery Tax Act. President Ronald Reagan signed this groundbreaking tax legislation into law on August 13, 1981 from his beloved Rancho…
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India’s COVID Response Would Benefit from More Federalism
As the Delta variant spreads, India is still reeling from a second wave that pushed its healthcare system to its limit. As of this writing, India’s official case load is…
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Congress Seeks to Expand Medicaid With or Without the States
Many in Congress are working to expand Medicaid in states where it has so far failed. Following passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, states were required to…
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Secretary of Energy Rick Perry on Secrets to Success and Making Government Work
At ALEC’s 2021 Annual Meeting last week in Salt Lake City, UT, I had the privilege of interviewing former Governor of Texas and former Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry. In…
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Closing the Laboratories Just as They Are Most Needed
In 1932, progressive U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis popularized a phrase regarding the importance of the U.S. system of federalism. As he wrote, “…a single courageous State may, if…
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Unanswered Questions on President Biden’s “30 by 30” Plan
Earlier this week, the Biden Administration released the much anticipated “America the Beautiful” report. The report, compiled by the Departments of Commerce, Interior and Agriculture along with the White…
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Federalism Is Having a Moment – Let’s Seize the Opportunity!
A renewed appreciation for federalism – the proper balance of power between the federal government and the 50 states – is sweeping the nation. Earlier this month, Utah Valley University’s…
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America’s National Debt: A Rendezvous with Reality?
Did you realize that the federal government now overspends more than $6 million each and every minute? Every single day, Washington digs the national debt hole nearly $9 billion…
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Democratic Hope Fades in the Republic of Georgia
The unraveling of democracy in the Republic of Georgia accelerated in 2021 – a descent that began more than a decade ago. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia resigned in February…
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Live by the King, Die by the King!
The saying, “Live by the sword, die by the sword” comes from Matthew 26:52, in the New Testament. When a mob descended upon Jesus to take him to be tried…
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Were Future State Tax Cuts Just Cancelled by Uncle Sam?
The newly-minted American Rescue Plan Act includes $350 billion for State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. This is despite early reports that show total state and local revenue…
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Key ALEC Policy Ideas for 2021
Our entire policy department at ALEC is busy analyzing the best free market ideas to add to the important discussions taking place across the states and at the federal level…
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36 Years and Counting: Museveni’s Reign Continues in Uganda
Uganda’s incumbent President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement Party (NRM) was reelected on January 14, 2021 for a sixth term in office. The Ugandan Electoral Commission announced that…
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Preserving the Union by Acting More Like Us
While working in Japan years ago, I read a book by Atlantic Monthly writer James Fallows. In the late 1980s, most pundits advanced that the cure for American economic and…