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 ...

Hopes were high for supporters of both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump ahead of polls closing, but by the early hours of ...

A proposed amendment must pass a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress, or if two-thirds of the states petition Congress, a new constitutional convention can be called to consider amendments.

At the 1986 convention, delegates passed 26 proposed amendments to the state constitution, which were then placed on the ballot for voters to approve or reject. In some cases, several proposed ...

Forty years ago, Rhode Island became the last state to hold a constitutional convention, and one state senator notes some lawmakers have fought every 10 years to prevent another one As a young ...

The Cincinnati Inquirer recently ran a commentary calling for a new constitutional convention. Even more recently, the idea was seconded by Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the U. of California Law School ...

Question 1 on the Nov. 5 ballot will ask voters to approve calling a state constitutional convention. Arguably, this may be the most consequential question on the ballot. A state constitution ...

Voters in eight states on Tuesday are projected to approve constitutional amendments explicitly banning noncitizens from voting in elections. The measure was approved by voters in Iowa ...

Although the word "slavery" does not appear in the Constitution, Georgia and South Carolina delegates insisted that a proportion of their slave population be factored in to determine ...

Four of the five statewide ballot questions in Rhode Island on Tuesday asked voters to approve funding for various projects. Question 2 would allocate $160.5 million of higher education facilities ...

Florida’s constitutional amendments can be confusing, often by design. So I’m going to try to break down the six amendments on this year’s ballot as simply as possible. I’ll give you the ...