Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Seventeenth Amendment ...

The Seventeenth Amendment was approved and ratified to make the Constitution more democratic. Progressives argued forcefully, persistently, and ultimately successfully that the democratic ...

In a White House statement, Biden expressed his opinion that Virginia ratifying the ERA means it is now an official amendment ...

but also in proposing the Twelfth and Seventeenth Amendments, Congress included operative language in the proposing resolutions that specified which changes were to be made in the Constitution ...

In the latter instance, the argument was interestingly that the basic features contained in Article 41B of the Constitution (brought in by the 17th Amendment) did not permit the President to wield ...

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913 ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

but also in the Twelfth and Seventeenth Amendments, Congress included operative language in proposing resolutions that specified which changes were to be made in the Constitution, altering the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely to ...

The National Archives poured cold water Friday on President Biden’s declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment is now part ...