or two-thirds of the states have to call for a constitutional convention. Ratifying an amendment is even more onerous: Three-fourths of all state legislatures — or of those state-level constitut ...

Dr Fayemi’s tenure as CDD director facilitated the organisation’s excellent links with similar organisations locally and internationally.

Dr Fayemi’s tenure as CDD director facilitated the organisation’s excellent links with similar organisations locally and ...

Many experts believe that means we are in a constitutional crisis because it’s not clear if the country’s leaders will follow ...

Senate Joint Resolution 1 (SJ 1), a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention to amend the United States Constitution, recently passed the Wyoming Senate and will now be deliberated by ...

HE’S ENCOURAGING THAT SPIRIT TO GET BEHIND AN ARTICLE FIVE CONVENTION OF STATES, A NEVER BEFORE USED CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY, HE SAYS, WOULD ALLOW STATE LEGISLATURES TO CHECK THE POWER OF THE ...

The first such moment was the founding itself. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention were sent to revise the Articles of Confederation; instead, they proposed an entirely new form of ...

Nineteen states have called on Congress to convene a constitutional convention. At least 34 are needed. It would be the first state-driven convention. The House however earlier this session passed ...

Sometimes a constitutional crisis sneaks up on you ... Musk has nonetheless gotten backup for his threats from Edward R. Martin Jr., a former “Stop the Steal” organizer whom Trump installed ...

Notes the Office of Federal Register, “None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by constitutional convention.” Republican Rep. Bethany Soye argued on Monday the South ...

But among these, several have faced serious pushback.One of the most controversial was his executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, a constitutional right that guarantees ...

“But in the aggregate,” they added, “they seem more like pieces of a program, in the form of law defiance, for a mini-constitutional convention to ‘amend’ Article II across a broad front.