January 23, 2025 • The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution's authors imagine it might change?

President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex. By Noah Weiland Reporting from Washington ...

In January 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA. However, pending legal challenges, the amendment’s future remains uncertain. National Museum of American History Ratification of the ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

The nefarious history of these laws, however, is worth a second look. The anti-Catholic origins of Blaine amendments are well-known. The influx of Catholic immigrants in the mid-1800s spawned ...

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) already exists…right? You may think that, surely, gender equality across the board in ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

former director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. The amendment has five sections, but we will only be dealing with the first, which contains the ...