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Stop asking 'can it happen here?' It is happening here. | Opinion
Not since those sweltering days in Philadelphia in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention has the United States confronted so ...
PBS12y
The Amendment Process
After all, the Philadelphia convention in 1787 was supposed to amend the Articles of Confederation, the existing constitution. Instead, the delegates proposed an entirely different system of ...
The New York Times19d
The Founders Were Afraid for the Country, Too
While writing my column this week, I was reminded of Benjamin Franklin’s quip about the outcome of the 1787 constitutional convention in Philadelphia. As the story goes, Franklin was leaving the ...
The Indianapolis Star16d
Indiana joins 10 states requesting constitutional convention on term limits. How likely is one?
has never happened in U.S. history since the very first constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787. The other method of amending the U.S. Constitution, which has been applied 27 times ...