The votes calling for a convention came during the "Balanced Budget Amendment" debates in the 1980s. Those votes are still on record, they fell short by two votes. Political parties, in recent history, have fell upon these votes as a legal means to creat a challenge to present law and maybe change ours. In December 2008, the Ohio legislature considered making Ohio the 33rd state to petition for a convention on the subject, but decided against it.

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/ResolutionText127/127_HJR_8_I_Y.html

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David Upton