March 6, 2025 • The 25th amendment. A few years before JFK was shot, an idealistic young lawyer set out on a mission to convince people something essential was missing from the Constitution ...

On this day in history, Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — granting African American men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the "right of ...

The nefarious history of these laws, however, is worth a second look. The anti-Catholic origins of Blaine amendments are well-known. The influx of Catholic immigrants in the mid-1800s spawned ...

Few areas of the law demonstrate the pitfalls better than the Second Amendment. Since the Supreme Court adopted what’s come to be known as the “history and tradition” test in Second ...

It was Article I of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and it guaranteed that “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States ...

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) already exists…right? You may think that, surely, gender equality across the board in ...

The right of the people to keep and bear arms, enshrined in the Constitution’s Second Amendment, is centered not on hunting or sport shooting but on the natural right of self-defense.

In January 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA. However, pending legal challenges, the amendment’s future remains uncertain. National Museum of American History Ratification of the ...

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the ...

State lawmakers have introduced a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at restricting bail for individuals accused of the most violent crimes.