Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the Union.

By 2020, however, the three necessary additional states had ratified: Nevada in 2017, Illinois in 2018 and Virginia in 2020. Many congressional scholars and advocates argue that according to the ...

When Americans today think of the Constitution, many of us think of certain cherished freedoms we hold dear: freedom of ...

The US now faces the likelihood of a bruising and raucous set of confirmation hearings − a clear break from the cooperative ...

Gillibrand is urging Biden to make the U.S. Archivist add the Amendment to the Constitution. Caufield says she can see the President take the chance. “I think on one level, President Biden has very ...

Congress proposed the ERA in March 1972, and it expired when its ratification ... to put the 1972 ERA in the Constitution by ordering the Archivist of the United States to say it is so.

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number ... as amendments to the ...

The question sought for the ratification of the proposed Constitution of Oklahoma.

has not been added to the Constitution because not enough states ratified it in time to meet a deadline mandated by Congress. The push is led by outgoing Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) and Rep.

Congress passed the ERA in 1972 with a stipulation that 38 state legislatures had to ratify it within seven years. When that deadline expired, only 35 states had done so, and the push to add equality ...

as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may ...