When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An Article V convention is "one of the few provisions of the Constitution that has never been ...

“I certainly would not want a Constitutional Convention. I mean whoa. Who knows what would come out of that.” — Justice Antonin Scalia, April 17, 2014. Two hundred and thirty-five years ago America ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana House Tuesday kicked off discussion of Gov. Jeff Landry’s call for a convention this spring to pare down the state’s Constitution. HB 800, sponsored by Rep. Beau ...

Two-hundred thirty-one years ago this Monday, the founding fathers signed the Constitution of the United States, which has become the cornerstone of our democracy. The principles enshrined in the ...

The once-a-decade question – whether the time is right to reopen the state Constitution – is moving toward an appearance on the November ballot. The House of Representatives Thursday introduced ...

Backers of the proposed Louisiana constitutional convention are considering a new timeline for the event, one that doesn’t coincide with the state lawmakers’ ongoing legislative session. That’s ...

As legislation winds through the process to rewrite Louisiana’s constitution, a convention could convene as soon as May 30. The proposal passed 75-27 in the House on May 7 and has been referred to the ...

A New York Times article yesterday ("A Second Constitutional Convention? Some Republicans Want to Force One") discusses conservative attempts to get a constitutional convention that would propose a ...

Courts of the era were explicit about what that meant. A trial with fewer than 12 jurors was, in the words of South Carolina Chief Justice John Belton O’Neall, “not a trial by jury, in any sense in ...