Democrats worry about a "'runaway convention' where anything and everything is on the table," Hayes Brown said at MSBNC.

Automatic citizenship for people born in the United States is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

The example of the original Constitutional Convention provides good reason to fear a second one. Called in 1787 to address perceived flaws in the nation’s original governing charter, the ...

Early US elites drafted the Constitution to check democratic uprisings that threatened the power of the ruling class. The ...

Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he ...

The night before electors for the 2024 presidential race were announced, 19-year-old Kaveesh Pathak wasn’t sure he was going ...

During the constitutional convention, there was some debate about letting the Supreme Court try all impeachments. One of the arguments against that option was that there would be so few judges.

Guest opinion writer Marriah Star, in his Dec 29 article, declares democracy is dead. His case is 100% nonsense. He begins by citing a US Supreme Court decision that overturned a case where the ...

It's time to break from convention at party conventions, and let the public have a say. When the new Maine State Legislature ...

An Article V convention is "one of the few provisions of the Constitution that has never been implemented". | Credit: Douglas Rissing / Getty Images The U.S. Constitution is more than two ...