Arizona state lawmaker Khyl Powell introduced a measure last week urging the U.S. Congress to repeal the Seventeenth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Republican-controlled Missouri Legislature is set to deliver on a long-held GOP promise to make it ...

Lawmakers are calling on President Trump's cabinet and Congress to boot him from office using a never-before-invoked ...

They’ve made it incredibly difficult to sue federal officers for abuse of power, no matter how egregious,” says David Gans, a ...

The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

Several Democratic lawmakers are urging President Donald Trump's cabinet to invoke a never-used constitutional provision to ...

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been the center of controversy since it was adopted on July 9, 1868 -- 157 years ago today. Born of Reconstruction, it was hotly debated by Northern ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

A Virginia circuit court on Tuesday struck down a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at giving lawmakers the option to ...

Any constitutional amendment must meet two requirements. It must receive a two-thirds majority of votes from a 55-seat ...