Statutory deadlines and presidential proclamations aside, like outgoing President Joe Biden's recent declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was now law, all that matters ...

Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...

Critically for Trump’s purposes, the amendment is not restricted to consecutive terms. Virtually every constitutional scholar ...

On January 16, 1919, the United States went legally "dry" when the 36th state ratified the 18th Amendment. File Photo courtesy Library of Congress ...

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

"Ultimately, the text of the Second Amendment includes eighteen-to-twenty-year-old individuals among ‘the people’ whose right to keep and bear arms is protected," the opinion of the court states.

Nil compensation can be offered, specific circumstances to be determined by ordinary legislation Have Your Say: The Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill [B – 2019] The ad hoc Committee to ...

Article V of the U.S. Constitution makes no mention of them. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the deadline for the 18th Amendment (Prohibition), but the circumstances of that case are bit different than ...

Gun control advocates tend to elevate the prefatory clause's militia reference, suggesting it's a precondition for the right to firearms. Some even claim that the Second Amendment preserves the right ...

It would be judiciously-correct to conduct the hearing on the premise of full strength of the august court, as has been the convention vis-a-vis challenges to 18th Amendment, 21st Amendment and ...

"In the 18th century, punctuation marks ... Though the final version of the text contains three, several states ratified the amendment with fewer. Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and South ...