This Constitution Day, which marks the 238 th anniversary of the adjournment of the Constitutional Convention, is also a dispiriting moment to dread how the nation will celebrate its ...
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 ...
The scene. Origins of the Convention -- The delegates and the State House. Washington and Madison -- In Convention. Randolph introduces the Virginia plan -- Federal versus national. The "two supremes.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with history professor Jonathan Gienapp about the development of the country's charter of government. Let's start at the beginning. Well, almost the beginning. By the late ...
The United States Constitution was signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. We have entered the 237th year of our national Constitution, which ...
JP Leskovich is a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s News Managing Editor. He filed this dispatch from Phoenix. This is the second in a series of dispatches he’s ...
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 ...
He dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had pushed to "make America Florida," is still aiming to shape national policy. DeSantis is proposing an alternative ...
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.