Democrats worry about a "'runaway convention' where anything and everything is on the table," Hayes Brown said at MSBNC. There is a precedent, after all: The original Constitutional Convention in 1787 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

After all, the men who gathered in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 were not there to ... to rescind their previous calls for a constitutional convention. Their fear is that even a ...