This anniversary provides an opportunity for us to reacquaint ourselves with their history and to recommit ourselves to the ...

Lawmakers in Washington announced renewed efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, which would guarantee equal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex The amendment was approved by ...

Attorney General Dave Yost accepted the title and summary for a proposed citizen-led ballot initiative on Thursday that would ...

In 1976, the 42nd Amendment to the Constitution not only added two words but also introduced changes in 40 Articles & the Seventh Schedule while adding 14 new Articles.

On the Fourth of July, contributing columnist Mike Vogel writes about what really matters, starting with the Bill of Rights ...

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but the declaration was an enormous political innovation — in it, the country ...

From widow remarriage to the right to property and divorce — these early Indian laws gave women power in a time when society ...

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce ...

Can the lead plaintiff in the gay marriage case move on from his grief — and can America move on from homophobia?

A University of Florida law student is arguing First Amendment rights in an investigation by administrators after antisemitic social media posts.

We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have ...

This special feature contains summaries of “important opinions” published in Virginia Lawyers Weekly during the first half of ...