BURGER VOICES DOUBTS ON CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

The Boston Globe | August 21, 1987| | Copyright

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 ...

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