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.

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 ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gives his State of the State address during a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives in Tallahassee, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. WLRN has partnered ...

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 ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO — On NBC’s “Today” show last June, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a proposal that seemed politically impossible from the start: Convincing two-thirds of state legislatures in America to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A campaign sign in Newport urges voters to vote no on Ballot Question 1, which asks if Rhode Island should hold a constitutional convention. (Janine L. Weisman/Rhode Island Current) For the fourth ...

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 ...