House Republicans are advancing a resolution that calls on Congress to hold a convention to propose amendments to the U.S.

The legal change that takes the longest to come about is a constitutional amendment. Like the United States ... Section 3 of the state constitution, a proposed constitutional amendment must ...

A familiar proposal encouraging Kansas legislators to limit the federal government’s influence returned Monday to the Statehouse. Senate Concurrent Resolution 1604 addresses a desire to impose term ...

Currently, the state constitution gives the general assembly the right to regulate the bearing of arms “with a view to ...

The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for ... 1923, a proposed amendment first came before the United States Congress. It read in its entirety, “Men and ...

Iowa is not among those states. Here, amending the constitution must start with a legislative proposal from state lawmakers, or by a constitutional convention, which is available only once every ...

An attempt to call a national convention to propose amendments to the United State Constitution is moving ahead in the South Dakota Legislature. The House State Affairs ...

Article V of the U.S. Constitution ... utilized for amendments. Alternatively, two-thirds of the states can call for a constitutional convention, which, in turn, can propose amendments to be ...

A provision in Article V of the Constitution states that if a majority of state legislatures petition Congress, there will be a convention to propose amendments. This would allow states to shape ...