In the sweltering summer of 1787, fifty-five delegates gathered in Philadelphia for what we now call the Constitutional Convention. While it sounds like a straightforward meeting today, it was ...

Each winter as the Christmas rush settles down and the new year is just around the corner, many of us begin to think about New Year’s resolutions. My thoughts also turn toward the coming legislative ...

Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated ...

User-Created Clip by swifta November 5, 2018 2015-04-25T20:00:26-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/23f/20150425200041003_hd.jpgProfessor Jack Rakove talked about ...

If Wyoming legislators would like to change the Constitution, they should propose specific amendments, writes guest columnist Earl DeGroot. The post A convention of the states is a bad idea appeared ...

Over the past few decades, conservative activists have patiently set their sights on organizing the first constitutional convention since 1787, invoking a never-used provision of the Constitution that ...