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The 95th Arizona Town Hall wrapped three days of work with a feisty debate on a radical idea: Call a constitutional convention to rewrite parts of the Arizona Constitution.
The idea of limited constitutional convention springs from the belief among many of 200-plus participants that the constitution has impediments that make it difficult, if not impossible, for Arizona to deal with budget deficits such as the state is seeing now.
Among those roadblocks: A two-thirds majority requirement to raise taxes; term limits that force lawmakers to leave office after eight years; two-year term tenures that make lawmakers focused on the ...

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