Con-con agenda out in the open: single-issue constitutional conventions have been repeatedly proposed as the answer to solve federal failings. Now convention proponents are issuing calls for wholesale remaking of the Constitution.(CONSTITUTION CORNER)

The New American | December 11, 2006| | Copyright

The United States has not had a constitutional convention since 1787, when the Founding Fathers decided to replace the Articles of Confederation, the then-existing constitution, with the Constitution we have today. In the past 219 years, our Constitution has since been amended 27 times. In each of those cases, the proposed amendment was approved via a process of obtaining a two-thirds majority vote of both houses of Congress and then ratification by three-fourths of the states--either by the state legislatures or by special state ratifying conventions, the mode of ...

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