When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An Article V convention is "one of the few provisions of the Constitution that has never been ...
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 ...
Constitutional Convention delegates meet inside the State House in 1986 — the last such convention approved by Rhode Island voters. Labor leaders want the General Assembly to remove the requirement ...
This year, Rhode Island voters are being asked to decide if the state should hold a constitutional convention. A constitutional convention − should a majority of voters endorse Question 1 in November ...
The Convention of the States picked those three topics because “they’re the ones that are not going to come out of Washington, DC, plain and simple,” said Diane Telles, the organization’s ...
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.
Mercy Otis Warren lost that debate. But her ideas still left a mark, and for that reason, she is worth remembering and ...
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 ...
Dr. Lepore is a professor of history and law at Harvard and the author of “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.” In 2016, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, read James Madison’s ...
The pardoning power of U.S. presidents is clearly allowed in the historic U.S. Constitution, which was written in 1787. However, the founders and the Constitutional Convention that wrote the document ...