Penn Live

Constitutional convention is the best solution to Pennsylvania's legislative woes

The budget is still not finished. Prisoners might be shipped to other states because we can’t house all of them here. We are on the brink of a pension crisis and have no real plan for funding the long ...
The Connecticut Mirror

Bring on a U.S. Constitutional convention

Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides two methods for amendment. The first method requires a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

In a new book, Russ Feingold raises the alarm about the risk of a modern day Constitutional Convention

There's a movement afoot among political conservatives to have another convention, the kind the Founding Fathers held. It produced the current Constitution, which includes the little-known Article V, ...
Penn Live

Both parties realize constitutional convention is necessary

Especially these days, there seem to be few issues Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, can agree on. So when one comes along we perk up and notice. Last week, Democratic ...
The Hill

A Constitutional Convention would be a constitutional crisis — states must say no

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 ...
WVUE FOX 8 News

Constitutional convention bill faces pushback during first public hearing

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Even as Louisiana lawmakers are in the midst of a busy regular session, there is new legislation to call them into a constitutional convention in May. But critics say the proposed ...
The Boston Globe

A constitutional convention poses a dangerous risk to our civil rights

Forty years ago, Rhode Island became the last state to hold a constitutional convention, and one state senator notes some lawmakers have fought every 10 years to prevent another one As a young, Black, ...
Mother Jones

What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and the Right-Wingers Prevailed?

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Nature’s rights, universal basic income, keeping money out of politics: These are ...
The Hill

Conservatives prepare new push for constitutional convention

SAN DIEGO — Conservative lawmakers will mount a new push to call a constitutional convention aimed at creating a balanced budget amendment and establishing term limits for members of Congress in an ...

This Day in History: The Constitutional Convention begins

Almost 240 years ago on May 25, 1787, the Untied States’ founding fathers convened in Philadelphia for the Constitutional ...
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Guest column: The constitutional convention question

Though it failed to pass in 2017, Idaho’s legislative leadership will likely try again to participate in a modern constitutional convention, writes Julianne Young. We have not had a constitutional ...