Gavin Newsom is more ambitious, seeking the first national constitutional convention since 1787, even before George Washington was elected president. Newsom thinks he can confine such a convention ...

There is a precedent, after all: The original Constitutional Convention in 1787 was called to amend the Articles of Confederation. The founders instead "abolished the articles" and came up with ...

The last — and only — time the states gathered for a constitutional convention was in 1787, when George Washington had yet to be elected as the United States’ first president. Still ...

a constitutional convention. The 1787 gathering in Philadelphia to write the Constitution was the one and only time state representatives have convened to work on the document. But a simple line ...

But current Gov. Gavin Newsom is more ambitious, seeking the first national constitutional convention since 1787, even before George Washington was elected president. Newsom thinks he can confine ...