The second way to propose an amendment is by two-thirds “…of the several States,” which “…call a Convention for proposing Amendments….” The first process is by far the more popular.

Regarding the Nov. 22 front-page article “Judges toss Md. law on handgun licensing”: The Second Amendment states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State ...

Even the United States Constitution is not immune to edits. The document has had plenty of amendments over the years, ... Second amendment: Grants the right to bear arms.

There were no British soldiers in the American colonies for 130 years. Colonists distrusted soldiers due to stories of brutality against civilians by soldiers under orders of tyrannical kings in ...

[1.] The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. [2.] The transportation or importation into any State,Territory, or possession of the United ...

"Article I, section 17 of the Hawaii Constitution mirrors the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution," the Hawaii Supreme Court decision states. "We read those words differently than ...

The Georgetown University Center for the Constitution, which leads programming on constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center, awarded an annual book prize to two law professors for ...

After the Civil War, the 14th Amendment disqualified from public office anyone who had sworn an oath to support the Constitution but then participated in “insurrection or rebellion” against ...

The United States Constitution was written in 1787. It was written during the Philadelphia Convention , now known as the Constitutional Convention. This took place from May 25 to Sept. 17, 1787.

Amendment X: “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.” Need a break ...