The constitution gives Congress the power to enact a draft, with each draft deciding who is to be pressed into military ...

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 ...

Trump is different. His defiance lies in plain view. There is no dignity. There is no restraint. There is only power. The ...

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 ...

Sadly, I cannot. Scott Bomboy of the National Constitution Center has a helpful article laying out the controversy over the ERA's ratification. As he notes, Congress passed the ERA in 1972 ...

The right and the left don’t agree on how they’d like to change the Constitution, but they do agree that changes need to be made.

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 ...

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.

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.

Congress set up a deadline for ratification. By 1982, when time ran out, only 35 states had ratified the ERA—three short of the three-fourths majority needed to add it to the Constitution.