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 ...

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 ...

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.

In those 24 states, citizens can initiate process of amending their state’s constitution. Iowa is not among those states. Here, amending the constitution must start with a legislative proposal from ...

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 ...

A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...

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.

Representative Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, has proposed a resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution that would allow presidents to serve a third term under certain conditions. But how likely ...

Unless we die young, old age awaits us all — even U.S. presidents. Inevitably, the older we get, the greater the chances of our physical and mental health worsening. Yet although the Constitution says ...