There were 11 women delegates from both political parties who served during Michigan's 1961 Constitutional Convention. Next year, Michigan voters will weigh in on whether the state should hold a ...

Rhode Island constitutional conventions past have taken on many shapes and sizes, from the 1973 convening that lasted a month to the 1964 affair that lasted four years. If voters in November say yes ...

This year, Rhode Island voters are being asked to decide if the state should hold a constitutional convention. The last convention took place in 1986. Here's what changed as a result – and what didn't ...

Forty years ago, Rhode Island became the last state to hold a constitutional convention, and one state senator notes some lawmakers have fought every 10 years to prevent another one As a young, Black, ...

(WJAR) — After nearly 40 years, is it time for a constitutional convention in Rhode Island? The question voters will decide next week is posed by law every 10 years in the state. If approved, each of ...

It remains to be seen whether Louisiana lawmakers will call for a constitutional convention, but some of the parameters for what the process would look like are advancing in the legislature. House ...

Temperatures in Denver hit 61 degrees on March 13, 1876, and that night the first rain of the year fell, though it soon turned back to snow. The Rocky Mountain News reported the first “centennial rain ...

We are of different parties and often disagree on the merits of policy. But we are totally aligned when it comes to our devotion and respect for the U.S. Constitution. We are also equally alarmed and ...

All quotations are from “Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787″ by Catherine Drinker Bowen. When 55 delegates from 12 states gathered in ...