He might try to do this by insisting that incoming MPs take their oaths of office under the "legal framework order" that gives the amendments force and secures his position as president.
Lawrence Lessig, a friend of Swartz and Harvard law professor, gave the amendment his blessing.
Here in Georgia, where the charter amendment could give the state more power to overrule local education boards, conservatives who typically champion decentralized government are giving the amendment full-throated support.
While Conservative MPs will be instructed to give the amendment their backing, long-standing Leave campaigners in the European Research Group have announced they won't support it.
During the first week of December, North Carolina and Georgia gave the amendment the final votes needed for it to become part of the Constitution.
And asked Monday if he would support Rules giving the amendment a vote, McCarthy dodged the question by noting that he's not on the Rules Committee.
Given the First Amendment and its inconvenient protection of political speech, laws against "negative" ads are out of the question.
But given the First Amendment and critical values of user privacy, this is very tricky terrain for them to navigate.
However, it remains an open question whether it's ever illegal, given the First Amendment's protection of press freedom, for a reporter to solicit information.
Sadly, given the First Amendment's free exercise clause, it is likely that the government can't scrutinize those claims.
Given the First Amendment, one can only imagine what Daubert might do for rational debate if its core principles were embraced by the media.
