Eagle Forum National Constitutional Issues Chairman
Janine Hansen, 775-397-6859, director@nevadafamilies.org
April 14, 2026, In the Year of Our Lord
EXCITING: 16 other States have rescinded all previous applications for an Article V Constitutional Convention. This is the very best way to oppose an Article V Convention!
Rhode Island Hearing on H7792 Rescinding all previous Article V Constitutional Convention applications.
HEARING: Thursday, April 16, sometime after 4pm, Room 135 State House, in the House Committee on State Government and Elections.
How to submit written testimony: https://www.rilegislature.gov/
Watch hearing: https://capitoltvri.cablecast.
MESSAGE: Please support H7792 to rescind all previous applications for an Article V Constitutional Amendments Convention. Large population states like California and Texas will have many more votes than Rhode Island. The Convention agenda cannot be limited, jeopardizing our Constitution. (Or better yet, write your own message.) More information below.
CONTACT the House Government and Elections Committee
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Chair: rep-shanley@rilegislature.gov,
rep-corvese@rilegislature.gov, rep-ajello@rilegislature.gov,
rep-baginski@rilegislature.gov
rep-dawson@rilegislature.gov, rep-kazarin@rilegislature.gov,
rep-kennedy@rilegislature.gov, rep-knight@rilegislature.gov,
rep-mcgaw@rilegislature.gov, rep-newberry@rilegislature.gov
rep-paplauskas@rilegislature.
Bill Text: H7792: https://webserver.
Eagle Forum National Constitutional Issues Chairman
Janine Hansen
eagle@eagleforum.org, janine@janinehansen.com www.eagleforum.org 775-397-
Why Rescind?
An Article V Convention Cannot be Limited: Phyllis Schlafly, the founder of Eagle Forum, often quoted Chief Justice Warren Burger as the highest authority to ever speak out on a Constitutional Convention. He stated: “I have also repeatedly given my opinion that there is no effective way to limit or muzzle the action of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or to one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey. After a Convention is convened, it would be too late to stop the convention if we don’t like the agenda.” In addition, in 2015, the New Jersey Law Journal reported that former Supreme Court Justice “Scalia called it a ‘horrible idea’ to hold a constitutional convention in this age of special interests.”
Large Population States Will Control the Convention: Since the Articles of Confederation were superseded by the U.S. Constitution, representation has always been according to the Great Compromise. Each state has two U.S. Senators, and the House of Representatives is based on population, just like the Electoral College. This is the formula the U.S. Senate and House used in their proposed procedural bills for an Article V Convention. This precludes the one state, one vote argument promoted by convention advocates. What it would mean is that Rhode Island would have 4 votes in a Convention, California 54 votes, Texas 38 votes, and New York 28 votes.
Jeopardize our Fundamental Rights: In September of 2023, California passed an Article V application, which would have completely gutted the Second Amendment. Although in 2025, California rescinded all previous applications for Article V Constitutional Conventions, it does not diminish California’s anti-Second Amendment agenda. Knowing that all 50 states will participate in any Article V Constitutional Convention, we can anticipate that all the well-funded anti-Second Amendment organizations will be there supporting California’s anti-Second Amendment agenda and lobbying to take away our fundamental Right to keep and Bear Arms. Other rights, such as religious liberty and free speech, could also be in jeopardy.
Ratification Process Could be Changed: The only thing mentioned in Article V that cannot be amended without the consent of each State is the equal representation in the U.S. Senate. What that means is that, as in the original Constitutional Convention, where the ratification process was changed from unanimous consent to amend the Articles to only nine states necessary to ratify the Constitution, a new Constitutional Convention could change the ratification process from three-fourths of the states to something less like twenty-six states. In addition, according to Article V, Congress can send any amendments proposed by the Convention to the State Legislatures for ratification or to conventions in those states, bypassing the state legislatures, which they did in order to pass the repeal of prohibition.
National Eagle Forum stands with the national Republican Party, which passed a resolution in 2012 that still stands opposing any Article V Constitutional Convention applications. We encourage Alaska to rescind all previous applications.
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