Proponents said the measure will make Alabama a more welcome place. Alabama voters said "yes" on Alabama's Recompiled Constitution Ratification Question, which ratified an updated state constitution ...

The vote in Hamden for approval — that is, the vote to guide the town’s delegate being sent to Hartford, a Mr. Theophilus Goodyear — was definitively negative: “yeas 5, nays 73.” Yet, and perhaps ...

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 of ...

More than 165 international constitutions include gender equality, and ours should, too. In January 2020, Virginia ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, becoming the final state needed to add about 170 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We have 27 Amendments to the United States Constitution. Each is part of the Constitution. The last amendment to be ratified is ...

Congress followed Article V of the U.S. Constitution when proposing an amendment that set term limits on U.S. presidents, and the 22nd Amendment became part of the Constitution when it was ratified by ...

President Joe Biden said Friday that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment, which guarantees equal protections regardless of sex, is the “law of the land” but stopped short of ordering the U.S.

A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

Three-fourths of U.S. states have ratified the amendment, and many argue it is the 28th Amendment to the Constitution; Women’s Equality Day serves as a reminder of the amendment’s importance. A ...

The head of the American Constitution Society says President Biden is right: The ratification standard has been met. Former senator (D-WI) Russ Feingold testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations ...

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 ...