We at the Amsterdam News wanted to take a second to talk about the U.S. Constitution, one of the most influential and “living ...

as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress.... The process of amendment developed hand in hand with the emergence of written constitutions that established ...

It grants Congress the authority to enforce the amendment through appropriate legislation and stipulates its effectiveness two years after ratification. Biden's statement is unlikely to have any ...

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.

As a constitutional amendment, it needs ratification from three-quarters ... Presidents don't have any role in the amendment process. And the leader of the National Archives has said that the ...

to propose the amendment once more and restart the ratification process among the States, consistent with Article V of the Constitution. I’d bet that very few if any of the several hundred ...

So many states feared the expanded powers of the new national government that they insisted on amendments during the Constitution's ratification. The most popular of these proposed amendments ...