As the United States marks its 250th anniversary this year, most Americans favor several major changes to the nation’s political system. Achieving those changes, however, likely would require doing ...

For a long time voting in this country was called a right, but was more of a privilege. The franchise was accepted as a matter of course for white men, but others -- such as women and black Americans ...

No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. The Twenty-Seventh Amendment has ...

In the early 1970s, buoyed by bipartisan support, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex. A rush of state ratifications ...

"Making Amends," the title of the Clinton Presidential Center's new special exhibition, is unlikely to set hearts throbbing. But its topic -- the 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution -- continues to ...