Murmurs from President Trump and his allies have stirred up questions of the incumbent possibly seeking a third term in ...
The 27th Amendment – the most recent add-on to the Constitution – was ratified in 1992 and prevents laws affecting the salaries of congressional lawmakers from taking effect until after the ...
But then a funny thing happened in 1992. The 27th Amendment to the Constitution -- which restricts compensation for members of Congress -- was ratified by Alabama 202 years after being proposed as ...
Just before leaving office President Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment the law of the land. If only.
That’s it. No mention of a deadline. In fact, the 27th Amendment (dealing with congressional pay raises) proposed by Congress in 1789 specified no deadline. Over 200 years later, the state ...
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.
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the ...
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 ...
There is also precedent for ratification taking a considerable amount of time including the 27th Amendment (Congressional salaries) which was proposed by James Madison in 1789, but wasn’t ...
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th ... the Congress; Provided that no Amendment ...