Our constitution has been amended only 27 times in its 236 years of existence. It is very hard to change. In fact, the U.S. Constitution, among all national constitutions, is the most difficult to ...
A new law making it harder to amend the state constitution is the subject of a legal challenge just days after the governor signed the bill. Florida Decides Healthcare, the advocacy group that filed ...
The left, fuming over the Supreme Court’s conservative majority and its commitment to the plain text of the confounded Constitution, is mounting a new push against originalism. That’s judicial jargon ...
Imagine voters in Florida approving the right to clean water, a higher minimum wage, the personal use of marijuana by adults, rate reductions on auto and property insurance, even prayer in schools.
Yes, sections of the Constitution were missing on a government website. No, it didn’t change US law.
In a world of wild talk and fake news, help us stand up for the facts.
In the early 1970s, buoyed by bipartisan support, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex. A rush of state ratifications ...
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 ...
I. Devising the amending process.-- II. The amending process and the development of the Constitution.-- III. Implications of the amending process.-- Appendix A. The Constitution of the United States ...
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.
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