The question appears on the ballot every 16 years. Michigan's last constitutional convention happened in 1961.

When New Yorkers decide on Nov. 7 whether to support or oppose calling a constitutional convention, the only mechanism for the people to bypass legislative opposition to popular constitutional reforms ...

A Louisiana lawmaker prefiled a bill Monday that would call for a constitutional convention to convene at the end of 2026.

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.

The Convention of the States picked those three topics because “they’re the ones that are not going to come out of Washington, DC, plain and simple,” said Diane Telles, the organization’s ...

Senate Joint Resolution 1 (SJ 1), a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention to amend the United States Constitution, recently passed the Wyoming Senate and will now be deliberated by the ...

Stock photo from Getty Images. Ohio is one of the states where legislators are pushing for conventions that could make constitutional amendments related to term limits and other issues, but advocates ...

The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, ...

The United States’ only Constitutional Convention occurred in 1787. But the Constitution allowed a convention to occur if two-thirds of states, or 34, pass a resolution calling for one. So far, 17 ...

Is a second constitutional convention a bad idea whose time has come? Let’s hope not. There is a movement across the country to convene the first con-con since 1787. The push is being led in Oklahoma ...

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.