The U.S. Senate and the nation's history might different if the Constitutional Convention had structured the chamber ...

Laws govern people; constitutions govern governments. Legislatures write laws; constitutional conventions write constitutions ...

The checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated, yet ...

J.H. Snider is the editor of The Rhode Island State Constitutional Convention Clearinghouse. Many have correctly said that Donald Trump has weird obsessions with crowd sizes and other matters. Well, ...

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, ...

On Sept. 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution, completed in Philadelphia, was signed by a majority of the 55 delegates to the ...

Americans must return to pluralism and the spirit of charity and moderation that characterized the political behavior of the ...

The National Archives in Washington, D.C. will be showcasing the four pages of the historic document, plus a rarely shown ...

North Carolina legislators voted this month to ask Congress to call for convention of states to suggest changes to the U.S. Constitution. Some Republican legislators have been pushing to file an ...

Re “Democrats Aim to Foil a Constitutional Rewrite” (news article, Dec. 17): Your story about the possibility of Donald Trump and his congressional acolytes convening a constitutional convention ...

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 ...

Rhode Island constitutional conventions past have taken on many shapes and sizes, from the 1973 convening that lasted a month to the 1964 affair that lasted four years. If voters in November say yes ...