It is not an operative legal clause at all. A prefatory clause may ... In fact, the Antifederalists at the time of the American Founding wanted the Second Amendment in place because they feared ...

and 15th Amendments are known as the “Reconstruction Amendments,” but what happens if one or all of them get stripped from American history? Trump Taking a Page From a Previously Closed Book ...

At the time of ratification of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, civilians routinely kept firearms in their own homes that could be used for a variety of lawful purposes at the same time. All ...

Trying to deport Khalil for demonstrating against Israel is an obvious violation of his rights and an attempt to intimidate ...

Republicans' answer to the problem of the Black vote was to add a Constitutional amendment that guaranteed Black suffrage in all states, and no matter which party controlled the government.

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

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 ...

In ratifying the Second Amendment, they built upon a strong foundation of inherited rights they had long possessed as Englishmen. A century before American independence, the Declaration of Rights ...

The amendment has five sections ... seen as unable or unworthy to function as true American citizens. After all, basic rights of citizenship, like suffrage and equal treatment, were denied ...

DENVER — When President Donald Trump gave his joint address to Congress last week, he boasted that in his first few weeks back in the White House he had “brought free speech back to America.” But ...

“Completely bonkers and unconstitutional,” not to mention “really shocking,” is how a lawyer with expertise on First Amendment press freedoms described ... s utterly contrary to the long-established ...