Two of California’s last three governors have wanted to help organize and promote constitutional conventions, either on the state or federal level. They’ve both been dangerously wrong about this.
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 interests ...
Over the past few decades, conservative activists have patiently set their sights on organizing the first constitutional convention since 1787, invoking a never-used provision of the Constitution that ...
Some prominent Democrats fear Republicans want to call a constitutional convention and rewrite the language on the books that has been protecting basic rights since 1787. Are they right to be ...
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 ...
The U.S. Constitution is a big deal. It's the supreme law of the land, shaping how the government works and protecting your rights. But how much do you really know about it? Whether you slept through ...
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Earlier this year, the Montana legislature almost took the whole country another step toward a constitutional crisis. A resolution that passed through a Senate committee before stalling on the floor ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana House Tuesday kicked off discussion of Gov. Jeff Landry’s call for a convention this spring to pare down the state’s Constitution. HB 800, sponsored by Rep. Beau ...
AN ARTICLE FIVE CONVENTION. THERE IS NOBODY CLOSER TO THE PEOPLE THAN YOU. 400 OF YOU. AS A FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, RICK SANTORUM KNOWS, NEW HAMPSHIRE LIKES TO BE OUT IN FRONT IN NATIONAL ...
In response to the gentleman that first wrote about my last entry, I ask, don’t just criticize Republican politicians without knowing all the facts of both sides ...