One of the final victories of the Progressive Era was the passage of the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution. Today, however, this amendment is hardly hailed as a victory. Unlike the groundbreaking ...

Trump will be the second president to serve non-consecutive terms and join the list of presidents elected to a second term.

After emerging victorious with a staggering 295 electoral votes from all over the US states, Donald Trump has been re-elected ...

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...

While that odd chapter in American history officially concluded with the 21st Amendment’s ratification in 1933, the restless ghosts of a 14-year national experiment in teetotallery still haunt ...

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 ...

Louisiana voters will have a chance to change their Constitution with an amendment in the Nov. 5 election. Here's an ...

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 ...

Before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, citizens of the states were automatically considered citizens of the United States. In 1857, the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision had held that no ...

The 25th Amendment addresses vacancies in the offices of president and vice president. The amendment speaks to the inability of the president “to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” ...

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 first amendment on changes to voter age and citizenship requirements in the Iowa Constitution received 77% of the vote for passage. The constitutional amendment on gubernatorial succession ...