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 ...

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 ...

When the Constitutional Convention assembled on the morning of September 17, 1787, the completed document was read aloud to the delegates for one last time. Thereupon Benjamin Franklin ...

The manner of electing the President was one of the most contentious issues at the Constitutional Convention held in 1787. The Founders struggled to satisfy each state’s demand for greater ...

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...

The proposal was more of a swashbuckling play for attention than a plan with any rational chance of success. The last — and only — time the states gathered for a constitutional convention was in 1787, ...

The copy was printed in 1787 after delegates from the colonial states met for the Constitutional Convention and drafted what would become the founding document of the US federal government.

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 ...

Some constitutional scholars believe that Article ... After all, the Philadelphia convention in 1787 was supposed to amend the Articles of Confederation, the existing constitution.