Richard Labunski is an American journalism professor at the University of Kentucky and newspaper columnist[4] who is an outspoken advocate for reforming the United States Constitution in his book The Second Constitutional Convention.
Labunski's book [3] James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights (2006) argued that Madison was initially lukewarm to the idea of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution, but later came to energetically support the ten amendments and worked hard for their inclusion.
[6] He has called for a Second Constitutional Convention of the United States, and argued that reform will not happen through the current system because Congress would be reluctant to "limit its own powers.
[9] He has been at the University of Kentucky since 1995, as a professor in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications.
[9] In The Second Constitutional Convention (2000), Labunski proposed communication via the Internet as a way for Americans to organize a federal constitutional convention[8] with a website serving as a "national meeting spot, a sort of cyberspace town meeting where people can get information".