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 ...

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 ...

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

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution printed 237 years ago and sent to the states to be ratified was sold ...

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

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

By Hank Sanders A rare copy of the United States Constitution that was printed shortly after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and played a role in the document’s adoption by the original 13 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The voters have cast their ballots, and after those ballots have been counted, and a winner has been projected by news organizations, that’s not the conclusion of the election. The ...

Actually, the Electoral College was about both and more. Examining the perspective of John Dickinson, a delegate from ...

The copy was printed after the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the proposed framework of the nation’s government in 1787 and sent it to the Congress of the ineffective first American ...

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