This lack of compromise has led to extreme views in Congress and is bad for our democracy. Washington state should become the 30th of 34 states that are needed to call a constitutional convention to ...

Thanks in part to our current contentious, partisan political climate, there have been calls for modifying or replacing the Constitution approved in 1787 at a convention in Philadelphia and ratified ...

Why does the state need to spend as much as $4.6 million when an amendment can be introduced at any time by our elected leaders? When the average person hears the term constitutional convention, they ...

“Our Fathers in forming the Federal Constitution entered into a guilty compromise on the subject of Slavery, and heavily is that sin now visited upon their children.” The bracing opening line of ...

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 ...

The Ohio GOP appears to be lining up behind the idea of a constitutional convention, with resolutions introduced in both the Ohio House and Senate. No more birthright citizenship, anyone? But a new ...

An extremely rare copy of the U.S. Constitution was found in a North Carolina drawer in 2022. The document helped North Carolina join the new nation by ratifying the Constitution. The signed document ...

Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith explains in his stance in defense of the Three-Fifths Compromise in a social media video posted Thursday, April 24, 2025. (Screenshot from a video posted to the lieutenant ...