"It would change (Missouri) in fairly dramatic ways," according to one political science professor.

"If we want real, lasting change, it has to come through the amendment process," Sen. Rand Paul said.

The Aug. 4 proposal would require citizen-led amendments to win in every congressional district, turning the ballot fight into a debate over who speaks for voters outside Missouri's big cities.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that’s unlikely to alter a decades-long push for gender equality.

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court in a pair of new rulings has further expanded the Constitution's Second Amendment right "to keep and bear arms," as the justices consider whether to take up additional gun rights cases for their next term.

These words of the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution, which was ratified 75 years ago last month, are ones we may have taken for granted — at least until President Trump’s second term in office and his repeated threats that he will not voluntarily ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on ...

An Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – guaranteeing rights to all Americans regardless of sex – was first proposed to Congress in 1923. More than a century later, the ERA still has not become a formal part of our nation's bedrock of laws.

The dream of going there to obtain minerals we need for our own industrial economy is completely ludicrous. Any economic geologist knows that Earthly mineral deposits are worth exploiting only as a result of their enrichment by geological processes such as plate tectonics that have never existed on our moon or Mars.

When a president isn’t just doing a bad job but isn’t doing the job at all, the Constitution gives us a plan. It’s called Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, and it’s the only legal mechanism that allows the vice president and Cabinet to declare that ...

Listen to “Flock or the Fourth Amendment? Huntington Chose Poorly” on Spreaker. Huntington City Council voted 6-4 early Tuesday morning to authorize a five-year contract worth roughly $2.1 million with Flock Safety for a package of public-safety technology that includes license-plate recognition,