Since the 1770s there have been more than 250 state constitutional conventions, requiring, in many cases, residents of those ...

Democrats worry about a "'runaway convention' where anything and everything is on the table," Hayes Brown said at MSBNC. There is a precedent, after all: The original Constitutional Convention in 1787 ...

After all, the men who gathered in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 were not there to draft a new constitution. At issue is a provision that allows Congress to call for a new convention to ...

Calling for a convention to amend the Constitution might actually be the best way to create a new one. After all, the Philadelphia convention in 1787 was supposed to amend the Articles of ...

Hamilton did not attend the entire four-month Constitutional Convention that began in May 1787 in Philadelphia. He had been one of the strongest advocates for that convention, but he was outvoted ...

Support from 34 states is needed to hold a convention around limiting federal powers. Nineteen have already signed on, with ...