Each amendment to the U.S. Constitution tells a story about the challenges and priorities of its era. In this video, explore ...

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

The Ludlow Amendment resonated with the public. The Gallup Poll, then in its infancy, found that three-quarters of Americans ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

As the nation approaches its 250th birthday next year, the National Archives has mounted its first display of the entire Constitution. The exhibition gives viewers a chance to see not only the ...

A discussion of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution and significant caselaw pertaining to the exercise of religion in the US. The US Supreme Court recently issued a ...

Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the ...

If there is a silver lining in these dark days for American democracy, it is the pressure test that President Trump and his allies are putting on the Constitution. They are revealing loopholes, gaps ...

Idaho’s 2026 Legislature is beginning. Pending regulations will be finalized, new laws debated, and spending on old laws ...

Donald Nieman receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is affiliated with Braver Angels. Bipartisan agreement is rare in these ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.