Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whenever there’s a procedural debate in the House, the discussion inevitably turns to why the amendment process has become so ...

A July 2 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims the rules that limit a president's time in the White House aren't legitimate. “Congress violated the Constitution in 1951 when they put term ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...

Ben Sheehan explains how, and how often, Americans have changed their Constitution. How do we change the U.S. Constitution? We’ve done it 27 times – is that too many or too few? Ben Sheehan explains ...

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 ...

Florida and Arkansas both recently added restrictions to the citizen amendment process, after ballot measures to expand abortion rights were successful in other states. By Emily Cochrane Reporting ...

With Democrats calling the changes an “assault on the very spirit of Florida’s democracy,” the Republican-controlled Legislature on Friday finalized a plan that will impose additional hurdles on the ...

In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratified, potentially enshrining gender equality into the U.S. Constitution as its 28th Amendment. "It is ...

Whenever there’s a procedural debate in the House, the discussion inevitably turns to why the amendment process has become so closed — especially to any opportunities for the minority party to offer ...