Federal Court Tosses Kansas Law on US Constitutional Conventions

Kansas’ requirements for the state legislature to request that Congress convene a Constitutional Convention violate the US Constitution, a federal court ruled.

Article V of the US Constitution says that Congress “on the Application of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments” to the US Constitution.

But, the Kansas Constitution “purports to restrict the Kansas Legislature’s application power by requiring the assent of a supermajority of legislators,” Judge Toby Crouse, of the US District Court for the District of Kansas, said. “That effort fails because the application power is conferred not by state law, ...