A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

Ben Sheehan explains how, and how often, Americans have changed their Constitution. How do we change the U.S. Constitution? We’ve done it 27 times – is that too many or too few? Ben Sheehan explains ...

This November, Texas voters will decide 17 proposed amendments to the state constitution. Only lawmakers can place amendments on the ballot in Texas. Each proposal must clear both the House and Senate ...

Louisiana voters will vote on four proposed constitutional amendments March 29. The amendments address various topics, including specialty courts, tax rates and juvenile prosecution. Amendment No. 2 ...

Less than three weeks before Louisiana voters are set to decide on four amendments to the state constitution, another lawsuit has been filed seeking to remove some of them from the ballot. Voice of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Should it become more difficult to amend the state’s constitution? That’s a question that has been debated at the statehouse for years and is now coming back up. Back in 2023, ...

The federal government has finally recognized the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ushering in a whole new era for gender parity in this country. A large crowd of ...

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 Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment, prohibited the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to the citizens of our country on the ...