In early March 2025, claims emerged that U.S. President Donald Trump asked advisers about moving the original copy of the ...

The story of the Ninth Amendment’s adoption begins with the decision by the Philadelphia convention to omit a bill of rights from the original Constitution of 1787. The absence of a bill of ...

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...

First introduced in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements for ratification. But its constitutionality is still an open question.

The Constitution of the United States is only 4543 words—7762 if you count the Amendments—and originally fit on just four large sheets of paper. But it packs a wallop. Not only is it the ...

When the US Constitution was written, many people − from those who wrote the document to those on the outside who read it − believed that endowing the president with kinglike powers was dangerous.

“Thomas Jefferson said men were created equal, but the original Constitution betrayed that promise by allowing for slavery,” ...

the Constitution? Excepting Adams who served a single term, these presidents each served a year longer than did all nine first-government presidents together. If these four had served as the first ...