This is the disturbing conclusion from a survey by the Center for Media and Democracy of the 50 states’ laws on how delegates to an Article V convention would be chosen. In only one state ...

Since 1962, constitutional convention invitations on statewide ballots have been turned down every two decades. In the last vote, in 2002, 65% of voters said “no.” ...

For the newspaper editorial cartoonists, there were few spectacles to make fun of at the Republican National Convention -- because very little had happened. So Rob Rogers and Scott Stantis, of the ...

Jacob C. Fisher San Francisco. To the Editor: The example of the original Constitutional Convention provides good reason to fear a second one. Called in 1787 to address perceived flaws in the ...

Of course, Rhode Island politics and public opinion has changed a lot since the Reagan administration. If the delegates elected to a constitutional convention leaned to the left, they could ...

History rebuts the idea that in a Con-Con, delegates’ power could be restricted to a single item. The original 1787 Constitutional Convention was called solely to ratify the Articles of ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The South Dakota House of Representatives has turned down the latest attempt to ask Congress to call a national convention to consider amendments to the United States ...

On January 14, 1868, a North Carolina constitutional convention, now known as the “Convention of 1868,” opened in Raleigh. The convention was required by an act of Congress which ordered North ...