There has only been one constitutional convention, the one that happened in Philadelphia in 1787. But all it takes to hold a new one is a call for it from two-thirds of the states. According to some observers, that threshold has already been met.
Republican U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington of Texas, the chair of the U.S. House Committee on the Budget, said a constitutional convention should have been called in 1979 because the state threshold was met at that time. To keep track of it all, Arrington has introduced legislation that would require the National Archives to collect state applications for conventions.
A “bare-bones” website called the Article 5 Library is also keeping count, according to the New York Times. It indicates that more than 34 states have standing requests for a convention, some of which are more than 150 years old.
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