“The U.S. Constitution is composed of the Preamble, seven articles, and 27 amendments. The first 10 amendments are known as the Bill of Rights,” according to the National Constitution Cente ...

Given Congress’s express deadline, how can Biden plausibly claim the ERA is now supreme law? His supporters could tenuously point to the 27th Amendment’s circuitous ratification. In 1789, Congress ...

It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution plays a critical role in supporting some of our ...

But a 28th Amendment has not suddenly been appended to the Constitution per Biden’s decree — there are still only 27 — nor does there appear to be much hope that it will soon. It is at best ...

President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex. By Noah Weiland Reporting from Washington ...

President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing Friday it had met the criteria to be added as ...

For instance, the 27th Amendment regarding the financial compensation of Congress was ratified in 1992, more than 200 years after it was originally proposed in 1789. To make things more ...

held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14, 1923, a proposed amendment first came before the United States Congress. It read in its ...

Given the judicial history on the issue, Sachs said Biden’s claim about the Equal Rights Amendment was "wildly overconfident and irresponsible." The National Archives lists only 27 amendments ...

A post from the Constitution Center from last month noted just how difficult and rare passing an amendment is, intentionally so. Since the 27th Amendment was ratified in 1992, more than 1,400 have ...

President Joe Biden declared Friday morning that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land, using his bully pulpit to try to push forward the amendment, first proposed more than a century ...

The Washington Post fact-checked President Joe Biden on Friday evening after he declared a 28th amendment to the Constitution had been “ratified” and he would recognize it. On January 27 ...