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Article: BURGER VOICES DOUBTS ON CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 21, 1987
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WASHINGTON - Former Chief Justice Warren Burger said
yesterday that he fears a constitutional convention called to
propose an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget would
start tinkering with the whole Constitution, much as the founding
fathers did 200 years ago.
"The participants in the Constitutional Convention of 1787
had no authority to write a constitution," said Burger, chairman of
the Commission on the Bicentennial of the US Constitution. They
were authorized only to revise the Articles of Confederation.
"But when they got to Philadelphia, they paid no attention to
those limits and, wisely, threw the whole thing away and wrote the
Constitution," Burger said.
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