Also, Article V of the Constitution lays out the amendment process: Two-thirds of both houses agree on amendments to be proposed, or two-thirds of state legislatures call a convention for proposing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Former Senior Legal Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies Thomas Jipping was a Senior Legal Fellow for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Only the American people can ...