If Wyoming legislators would like to change the Constitution, they should propose specific amendments, writes guest columnist Earl DeGroot. The post A convention of the states is a bad idea appeared ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rhode Island Constitutional Convention supporters Tuesday pushed back against the idea that tinkering with the state's founding ...

The Ohio GOP appears to be lining up behind the idea of a constitutional convention, with resolutions introduced in both the Ohio House and Senate. No more birthright citizenship, anyone? But a new ...

In theory, Question 1 on Rhode Island's November ballot − asking whether the state should hold a constitutional convention − is nonpartisan. There's no reason a convention would necessarily favor ...

A New York Times story last week reports fears by Democratic politicians of calls by some leading Republican politicians for a new Constitutional Convention. This is distinct from the customary means ...

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 ...

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, ...

A plan to prepare Michigan for the possibility of a federal constitutional convention got a state House committee hearing ...

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.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Rhode Islanders get to make a once-in-a-decade decision: Should the state hold a constitutional convention? If voters approve Question 1, elected ...

Opportunities to rewrite the document come along every 20 years. The next public vote on the question is in 2030.