President Joe Biden said Friday that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment, which guarantees equal protections regardless of sex, is the “law of the land” but stopped short of ordering the U.S.

In a surprise move on his way out of office, Biden proclaimed that the amendment has met the requirements for ratification and is now part of the Constitution. The ERA, he said, is the “law of ...

The ratification of the Treaty of Paris stemmed ... according to the National Constitution Center. That same month, the Continental Congress approved the preliminary peace treaty and sent it ...

Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...

Politics / The head of the American Constitution Society says President Biden is right: The ratification standard has been met. John Nichols Few elected leaders in American history have been so ...

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

Nearly 225 years after the ratification of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the cause of conscience protected by the principles of “no establishment” and “free exercise” may be losing ...

The primary objection raised by critics, that the time limit for ratification has passed, cannot withstand constitutional scrutiny. The Constitution itself is silent on time limits for amendments.

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...