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We celebrate the Declaration of Independence as the “opening act” for a series of “main events” that laid the foundation of our democracy.
NEW-ORLEANS, Thursday, March 21. The State Convention, to-day, after a lively debate, ratified the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States by a vote of 100 Ayes to 7 Nays.
On March 22, 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, sending the measure to the states for ratification in order for it to become a part of the U.S. Constitution, the ultimate law ...
The head of the American Constitution Society says President Biden is right: The ratification standard has been met.
Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...
Lawmakers on Tuesday announced plans to achieve a goal a century in the making: Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, which would guarantee equal rights for all American citizens regardless ...
UTICA, N.Y. -- Utica's Parkway Recreation Center will host the third annual Puerto Rico Constitution Day celebration. The ...
At the heart of this democratic struggle stood the Constitution — which served as the most powerful legal foundation for the opposition’s calls for political reform and universal suffrage.
America’s Constitution was thus inspired as much by the stress of the young nation’s post-war crisis as by the energy of the founders’ political passions.
There has been upset at Royal Holloway, University of London, due to the potential ratification of the Israel Society. The ...
MANILA — A measure seeking to amend the 1987 Constitution was revived on Tuesday at the House of Representatives. Ako Bicol ...
The Heiltsuk Nation has ratified its written constitution through a celebratory feast in Bella Bella, B.C. Marilyn Slett, the nation's elected chief, called it a "monumental day" that comes after ...