Granting clemency would affirm our commitments to justice and human rights and to a vision of dignity and fairness for all.” ...

The Utah Senate voted to pass HB267 which would ban public sector collective bargaining. Lawmakers worked with unions to make changes to the bill but when there was no consensus, decided to pass the ...

The Democratic-controlled Virginia Senate and House of Delegates have debated tax relief and other issues before passing ...

A series of legal challenges regarding birthright citizenship is making it unclear what will happen to young immigrants in a few months.

Language included as part of the Virginia Senate’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year would prohibit a planned gaming ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles told Newsmax that his constitutional amendment will need "a lot of work" to get ratified.

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

The proposed constitutional amendment excludes presidents who served two consecutive terms, such as former President Barack ...

An amendment to the Constitution must receive a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and Senate. If that is done, three ...

The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, prevents a person from serving as president for more than two terms. It was passed by Congress in 1947 in response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt winning four ...