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

Outgoing President Joe Biden announced today that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) met ratification requirements and is now the official 28th amendment to the Constitution—a ...

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 ...

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.

In 2023, Congress attempted to remove the deadline to clear the way for ratification, but the measure fell short of the 60-vote threshold in the Senate. The U.S. Constitution currently recognizes ...

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.

The remarks were largely a symbolic gesture of support for a century-long campaign to enshrine gender equality in the Constitution ... has met the requirements of ratification and therefore ...