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If the outlines of Gen. HUSTED'S Constitutional Convention bill were correctly given in our Albany dispatches yesterday, the bill will have to be entirely recast, we think, before it will be ...
The U.S. Constitution is flawed and ought to be changed. Here’s where I’d start: The undemocratic provision giving each state two senators, so that tiny Wyoming has the same representation as ...
Because there’s never been a second constitutional convention, no one knows if such a gathering’s activity can be confined to one or two subjects, or whether everything would become fair game.
And that formula for calculating representation in Congress was the exact formula that the framers of the Constitutional Convention used to devise the extraordinarily Byzantine system of electing ...
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 ...
We need more than 55 delegates this time. With professor Breslin’s help, I recommend a convention of 250 delegates (one for each year of our experiment), most of them just regular Americans, but ...
The manner of electing the President was one of the most contentious issues at the Constitutional Convention held in 1787. The Founders struggled to satisfy each state’s demand for greater ...
Wiener’s fears are becoming more common, as states like Illinois and New Jersey, which previously had open calls for a constitutional convention, have rescinded their prior actions.
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