On June 21, 1788, the US constitution was ratified and became the law after New Hampshire became the ninth of the 13 states ...

How hard is it to amend the United States Constitution? So hard that the last time that happened was in 1992--and that ...

But the legal theory mixes and matches petitions from states dating back to 1789. ... How a Push to Amend the Constitution Could Help Trump ... It then must be ratified by three-quarters of ...

Eleven of 13 states ratified the Constitution in the months after signing, and North Carolina finally signed in November 1789. That left Rhode Island—which never sent a delegate to the ...

Nor was the discomfort due solely to the document’s jarring brevity – at 4,543 words, the U.S. Constitution is the shortest written Constitution of any major nation in the world.

(THE CONVERSATION) If there are any limits to a president’s power, it wasn’t evident from Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. In that speech, the first ...

When the US Constitution was written, many people − from those who wrote the document to those on the outside who read it − believed that endowing the president with kinglike powers was dangerous.

Since 1789, Congress has sent 33 constitutional amendments to the states for ratification. Twenty-seven of those amendments were eventually ratified and became part of the Constitution.Here’s ...

This amendment was included as one of the Bill of Rights when submitted to Congress in 1789. Unlike the first 10 amendments, the amendment was not ratified together with the 10 Bill of Rights. In ...