We’ve already had one constitutional convention – literally The Constitutional Convention, in 1787, which gave us the Constitution – and there hasn’t been one since.

Importantly, the Convention does not have power (just as Congress does not have power) under Article V to rewrite or completely overhaul the U.S. Constitution, or propose amendments beyond the ...

A constitutional convention also would circumvent one of the proudest democratic advances of the last century: one-person, one-vote. Without a precedent no one really knows how a convention would ...

A convention, by contrast, must be initiated by two-thirds of the states and would inevitably be open-ended: the Constitution, while authorizing such a mode of amendment, sets no limits to what ...

Recall that the Philadelphia convention of 1787 that wrote our Constitution was a “runaway convention.” Called under a resolution to “revise” the Articles of Confederation, the first thing ...

An engraved portrait of Gouverneur Morris, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York City who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Lawrence Lessig is advocating for a convention in hopes of overturning Citizens United with a constitutional amendment. Above, the former 2016 Democratic presidential candidate discusses campaign ...

A constitutional convention is a deliberative body of delegates who would come up with a proposal or proposals to rewrite, update, add to or otherwise change New York's constitution.

Rhode Island Constitutional Convention supporters Tuesday pushed back against the idea that tinkering with the state's founding text would invite a tidal wave of influence by outside special ...