A growing number of states are considering ways to make it more difficult to amend their constitutions, but a proposed bill in the state house would make Missouri unique among them. House Joint ...

President Joe Biden said Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923, should be considered ratified and ...

The Iowa state constitution is on display in Secretary of State Paul Pate's office in 2016. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread.

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 ...

The modern Florida Constitution was adopted in 1968. But it’s still being written. Floridians have voted to modify the state’s governing charter in almost every election cycle since then. In this year ...

Virginia House Democrats wasted little time flexing their new majority on the opening day of the 2026 General Assembly, ...

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 ...

Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is an effort to repeal by executive fiat the legal foundation underlying the Fourteenth Amendment, which the ruling class today views ...

On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed cloture on the comprehensive immigration reform bill. Grassley said it’s now “unclear if any more amendments” will be voted on. {mosads}The ...

University of Houston political science professor and host of “Party Politics,” Brandon Rottinghaus explains the amendment process and why they’re important to Texas. Texas has one of the longest ...