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 ...

The Twenty-first Amendment has three parts ... be dry without infringing on the scope of the rest of the Constitution. The amendment tracks very closely the language of a pre-Prohibition ...

On 19 April, Democratic Alliance (DA) MP, Glynnis Breytenbach, announced her intention to introduce a Private Member’s Bill: the Constitution 21st Amendment Bill. As gazetted for public comment ...

The amendment process in the Constitution, as James Madison explained ... Of the ratified amendments, all but the Twenty-first Amendment, which was ratified by state conventions, have been ...

The fight to uphold the Constitution of the United States is more important today than ever in our nation’s history.

The Constitution of the United States was written ... Prohibition was in effect for 13 years before it was repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment. Prohibition, history notes, largely backfired.

Poor Abraham Lincoln. When I was in school during the dark ages of our republic, Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator ...

The framers of the Constitution designed a system of government ... creates gridlock and is ill-suited to the demands of the 21st century, where global electronic networks can collapse financial ...

Amendments are part of the Constitution. The first 10 Amendments ... They had set views, just like our leaders have set views in the 21st Century. The Fathers knew that the constitutional process ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...