Constitutional Convention

Shake the System

Gavin Newsom | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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Gavin Newsom

If we're going to put California back on the leading edge, we have to fix our broken system. Please join me in supporting a California Constitutional Convention and help participate in shaping it.

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New Constitution Called For As Albany Disgust Rises

New York Times | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York

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ALBANY - Few New Yorkers would disagree that state politics are broken. Even fewer are the number of proposed fixes - from term limits for lawmakers t...

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Small States with Big Power

Mike Lux | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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Mike Lux

Is it fair that the key gang of six negotiating health care in the Senate Finance Committee represent less than 3% of the nation's population?

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California Rising

Jim Selman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

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Jim Selman

In many ways, California has always been an 'early adapter' in terms of social and technological trends. It has also been early in having its share of the problems we are now facing everywhere.

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Every Illinois County Voted Against The Constitutional Convention

Progress Illinois | Josh Kalven | Posted 12.22.2008 | Chicago

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A Progress Illinois analysis of the 2008 general election results found that every county in the state voted heavily against the proposed 2010 constit...

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Bar Association To Appeal Con-Con Ruling

Associated Press | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago

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The Chicago Bar Association says it will ask the Illinois Supreme Court to examine the process that put a constitutional convention referendum on the ...

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Constitutional Convention Rejected By Voters

Associated Press | Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago

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Illinois voters decided against a constitutional convention referendum Tuesday, but the question may live on in the courts. With 92 percent of precin...

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Are Citizens 'Too Stupid' For A Constitutional Convention?

SouthtownStar | Kristen McQueary | Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago

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T here they stood, like an old Archie and Edith. Gov. Jim Edgar and his 1992 gubernatorial opponent, Dawn Clark Netsch, side by side in the Thompson C...

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What the Framers Knew and Alan Greenspan Didn't

Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

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Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes

The Framers did not ask people to rise above self-interest but instead expected them to pursue it. Pitting interest against interest, as Madison put it, is a way of ensuring liberty.

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Vote NO on a Constitutional Convention

Greg Harris | Posted 11.17.2008 | Chicago

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Greg Harris

If the roof in your house sprung a leak, would you fix the roof or burn down the house and start over? That is essentially the choice Illinois voters will make this year when we decide whether or not to have a constitutional convention.

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Constitutional Convention: Debating The Merits

Illinois Issues | Posted 11.09.2008 | Chicago

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In Illinois, the very first question on the ballot November 4 -- even before the question of who shall be president -- will ask voters whether Illinoi...

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Who Wants A Constitutional Convention?

Gapers Block | Ramsin Canon | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago

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The pro and con sides of an unconventional Constitutional Convention controversy lined up, and in a balmy room at the UIC campus, they acted out a pur...

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