It is hard to imagine the United States without the Constitution. This short document, drafted in 1787 in a hot and stuffy ...

What "great message" can we take from this historical episode? Explain.

In short, that if voters approve Question 1 on Nov. 5 there will be an election to choose 75 delegates who will meet at a ...

A State House panel collecting research about a potential convention approved a report summarizing what they heard.

The Daughters of the American Revolution are celebrating Constitution Week, and and the Nathaniel Massie Chapter has events ...

As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton found some of his ideas about how to structure a federal government soundly rejected. Yet he liked the resulting Constitution ...

This Constitution Day, we should remember the precious founding document produced on Sept. 17, 1787, in Philadelphia.

If voters in November vote "no" on Question 1, all of the questions will be moot and the debate about a constitutional convention will go away until 2034. If they vote "yes," Constitutional ...

Historical document appraiser and collector Seth Kaller spreads a broad sheet of paper across a desk. It’s in good enough condition that he can handle it, carefully, with clean, bare ...

Submitted Communities throughout the nation will be celebrating the spirit and meaning of the country’s Constitution beginning September 17. On this day in 1787, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, ...

Question 1 on the ballot in November asked voters whether Rhode Island should hold a constitutional convention. A State House commission that's been listening to the public and collecting ...

Rhode Island constitutional conventions past have taken on many shapes and sizes, from the 1973 convening that lasted a month to the 1964 affair that lasted four years. If voters in November say ...