How likely is a new constitutional convention in the US?

A new Constitutional Convention is a virtual impossibility. What people are calling for is an Article V Convention of the States for the purpose of proposing and ratifying amendments to the Constitution outside of the purview of Congress. read more

Rhode Island, fearing that the Convention would work to its disadvantage, boycotted the Convention and, when the Constitution was put to the states during the next year of controversial debates, initially refused to ratify it, waiting until May 1790 to become the thirteenth, a year after the new federal government commenced. read more