In 2014 Common Cause Rhode Island engaged in an educational campaign around the Constitutional Convention referendum. These are some of the resources we developed and made available to the public, including a March 29, 2014 event co-hosted with the Hassenfeld Institute for Public Leadership at Bryant University, the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island, and Roger Williams University School of Law.

• Agenda for ‘A Constitutional Convention for Rhode Island?’
• Video of the constitutional convention forum: Part One, Part Two
• 1986 ConCon fact sheet
• Legislatively initiated constitutional change in Rhode Island: 2004-2014
• Getting from here to there: Twenty-First Century mechanisms and opportunities in state constitutional reform by G. Alan Tarr and Robert F. Williams
• An infographic explaining the constitutional convention process from 1984-1986.
• Excerpts of John Marion’s talk, Tarr and Williams’ talks, Brown, Goldstein and Flanders panel.
• 1985 election of delegates campaign finance summary
• 1985 election of delegates campaign finance data spreadsheet
• 1986 Voters’ Guide to Fourteen Ballot Questions for Constitutional Revision
• 1985 Public Law authorizing the election of delegates
• 1986 ballot question language
• History of Rhode Island constitutional conventions prepared by RI State Archives