Kansas lawmakers last week became the latest to join a movement aiming to amend the United States Constitution to require the nation to maintain a balanced budget, a long-running project of conservative activists who hope to force change through a never-before-used procedure outlined in America’s founding document.
But opponents of calling a new constitutional convention, and even some supporters, worry that the idea of throwing open a 250-year-old document to revision and edits could become a chaotic and unwieldy process — especially at such a moment of political turmoil and discontent.
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