United States Constitutional Convention

The Constitution of the United State of America has had 26 amendments since its creation on September 17th, 1787. The 27th Amendment is still in the process to be ratified and added to the supreme law of the United States. The Constitution provides itself in the Article V the instruments and conditions required to propose amendments: two-thirds votes of congress, which proposed the first 26 amendments, and the method of constitutional convention call that require two-thirds of the states' participation. The convention is a political meeting intended to revise the current Constitution or propose amendments to the Constitution.

The Constitution of 1787 was signed under the constitutional conventions assembled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, other previous intents or suggestions for conventions took place before 1787 in response to different events such as form a union or reform the Confederation. Some of these proposed were Alexander Hamilton in 1780, Pelatiah Webster in 1781, the New York legislature in 1782, Hamilton again in 1783 while in Congress, Richard Henry Lee in 1784, and James Bowdoin in 1785.

American people are very close to having the First Constitutional Convention based on 1787 Constitution. There are 32 states that already call Congress to convent and other 12 states are considering this call. It is needed two more states only to complete the two-thirds of the states' involvement according to Article V. If the convention take place and the amendments are approved, they must be ratified for three-fourths of the states in order to be added to the Constitution.