A minimum of 34 states would need to approve such a move for a convention to occur. Nevertheless, the current initiative led ...

The once-a-decade question – whether the time is right to reopen the state Constitution – is moving toward an appearance on the November ballot. The House of Representatives Thursday introduced ...

The question appears on the ballot every 16 years. Michigan's last constitutional convention happened in 1961.

Over a half-century ago, as secretary and elected delegate to the 1973 Constitutional Convention, I drafted and helped secure the enactment of the present Rhode Island Constitution’s provision Article ...

HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - Three Nebraska state senators, Loren Lippincott, Beau Ballard and Dave Murman, introduced LR21 in an ...

A New York Times story last week reports fears by Democratic politicians of calls by some leading Republican politicians for a new Constitutional Convention. This is distinct from the customary means ...

A Louisiana lawmaker prefiled a bill Monday that would call for a constitutional convention to convene at the end of 2026.

The United States’ only Constitutional Convention occurred in 1787. But the Constitution allowed a convention to occur if two-thirds of states, or 34, pass a resolution calling for one. So far, 17 ...

THIS IS KCRA THREE NEWS AT 430. A DEMOCRATIC STATE LAWMAKER NOW HAS SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AND WANTS THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE TO WITHDRAW ALL OF ...

The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, ...