Iowa is among 26 states that does not have a process that allows citizens an opportunity to begin the process of amending the state constitution; that process currently is started by state lawmakers.

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

President Trump’s order curtailing birthright citizenship faces lawsuits over the 14th Amendment. This may be prelude to ...

Over the past month, principles of government laid out in the U.S. Constitution have either been misinterpreted or ignored by ...

The Student Association Constitutional Revisions Committee announced four potential constitutional amendments at a Jan. 27 ...

For David Flanagan, the seeds of becoming a United States citizen were planted when he was in college in his native Ireland.

The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the US"—why does Trump wants to change it?

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

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which is tasked with certifying and publishing new amendments, said it could not add the ERA to the U.S. Constitution. Show Full Article The ERA declares that “Equality of rights under the law shall ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden called the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the ... law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." ...

Explaining a seemingly bizarre declaration from the outgoing president.