The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. This laconic sentence, in the last and ...

The story of how we gained our Bill of Rights shows the influence of the states 233 years ago, and it can remind us of the ...

The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. The Word, "the," being interlined between ...

A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution printed 237 years ago and sent to the states to be ratified was sold for $9 million at ...

As one of the most sacred documents in the US, the Constitution essentially governs how our nation works and is a revered ...

So many states feared the expanded powers of the new national government that they insisted on amendments during the Constitution's ratification. The most popular of these proposed amendments ...

North Carolina legislators voted this month to ask Congress to call for convention of states to suggest changes to the U.S.

A proposed amendment must pass a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress, or if two-thirds of the states ... must ratify the amendment for it to become a permanent part of the Constitution.

In January 2020, Virginia ratified ... Constitution. Congress approved the ERA in 1972. The amendment says: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States ...