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 ...
Just before leaving office President Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment the law of the land. If only.
Since the 27th Amendment was ratified in 1992, more than 1,400 have been proposed in Congress, but none has received 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 ...
“To date, Congress has submitted 33 amendment proposals to the states, 27 of which were ratified,” according to the NCSL. “The 27th Amendment, which prevents members of Congress from ...
The last time the Constitution was amended was in 1992, when the 27th Amendment was ratified. That amendment bars pay raises for members of Congress from taking effect until after an election for ...
The only US president who served for four terms was Franklin D Roosevelt during the Great Depression till 1945. After 1951, ...
The Congress shall have the power to enforce ... In fact, there were a full two centuries between the proposal of the 27th Amendment (1789) and its ratification (1992), following a successful campaign ...