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Constitutional Conventions: Political and Legal Questions (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date July 8, 1985
Report Number IB80062
Authors David C. Huckabee, Government Division; Meredith McCoy, American Law Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

In the 1980s, the Nation may be faced with its first constitutional convention since 1787. Applications have been passed by 32 of the necessary 34 state legislatures to convene a convention to propose an amendment limiting deficit spending, and by 19 states for an amendment prohibiting abortion. Because this process for amending the Constitution has never been used, several unresolved legal and policy questions arise governing the new convening and the authority of such a convention.