Each amendment to the U.S. Constitution tells a story about the challenges and priorities of its era. In this video, explore ...

The Ludlow Amendment resonated with the public. The Gallup Poll, then in its infancy, found that three-quarters of Americans ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...

Jill Lepore’s stellar cover story rightly described the Constitution’s amendment provision as a “sleeping giant.” The process is indeed in sound slumber today, but history suggests that it will wake ...

As the nation approaches its 250th birthday next year, the National Archives has mounted its first display of the entire Constitution. The exhibition gives viewers a chance to see not only the ...

A discussion of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution and significant caselaw pertaining to the exercise of religion in the US. The US Supreme Court recently issued a ...

If there is a silver lining in these dark days for American democracy, it is the pressure test that President Trump and his allies are putting on the Constitution. They are revealing loopholes, gaps ...

Idaho’s 2026 Legislature is beginning. Pending regulations will be finalized, new laws debated, and spending on old laws ...

Preston is a research fellow for tax policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the federal budget. Americans who have never lived elsewhere may take for granted the ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.

Donald Nieman receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is affiliated with Braver Angels. Bipartisan agreement is rare in these ...

These proposals sought to change the United States’ name, abolish the presidency and the vice presidency, and set a limit on personal fortunes, among other measures Greg Daugherty - History ...