Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rhode Island Constitutional Convention President Kevin A. McKenna presides over a session of the 1968 convention in the House of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A U.S. senator from South Carolina and his political allies launched the South Carolina Constitutional Convention on Sept. 10, 1895, to disenfranchise Black voters and ...

The date Jan. 11 is recognized as Emancipation Day in Missouri. On this date in 1865, delegates to the Missouri Constitutional Convention approved an ordinance abolishing slavery in the state. The ...

Few events in the history of the United States were of greater consequence than the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although most histories have focused on the issues and compromises that dominated ...

Sept. 17 marked Constitution Day, grounded in a federal law commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. As explained by the courts of Maryland, "By law, all educational ...

This November, Michigan voters will see a question on their ballots about whether the state should convene a constitutional convention. The last constitutional convention in Michigan took place in the ...

Earlier this year, the Montana legislature almost took the whole country another step toward a constitutional crisis. A resolution that passed through a Senate committee before stalling on the floor ...

Ben Sheehan explains what happened at the first Convention and if the U.S could have another. You probably learned about the original Constitutional Convention (the one from 1787) in history class.

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) — On January 2, 1788, the state of Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution required extensive negotiations before it was set as the ...