1774-1787: Philadelphia is the site of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention. 1780: Pennsylvania declares that all black children born slaves will be freed at age 28.

The idea of the Electoral College emerged during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as a middle ground between two ...

One of the quirks of the U.S. election process is that one candidate can win the popular vote but another can win the ...

In September 1786, a larger convention ... Constitutional Convention if needed, or they could rely on the new Congress to ...

The concept emerged during the Constitutional Convention, which took place over a four-month period in 1787 to address issues ...

And this was decades before the current political mess developed. Granted, a new constitutional convention would have one obvious advantage over the 1787 convention: experience accumulated in the ...

The Electoral College is made up of 538 elected members, one for each U.S. senator and U.S. representative, plus three for ...

The Electoral College ensures that even the most sparsely populated states have an effect on the final result (Wyoming, ...

Here's why presidential candidates have to concentrate on a handful of swing states and why the winner of the popular vote ...

Get Rhode Map A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode ... onslaught of unions — say they’re opposed to holding a constitutional convention, arguing that it’s too risky to allow even the ...

it was backed by a majority of senators but fell short of the two-thirds majority needed for a constitutional amendment. The ...