Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. We have 27 Amendments to the United States Constitution. Each is part of the Constitution. The last amendment to be ratified is the 27th Amendment.

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment. There are multiple passages he has ...

After Hawaii, 30 other states followed suit within a year but sadly that wasn’t enough to officially ratify the ERA as the ...

But then a funny thing happened in 1992. The 27th Amendment to the Constitution -- which restricts compensation for members of Congress -- was ratified by Alabama 202 years after being proposed as ...

President Joe Biden in his farewell address touched on a number of concerns about the future, including the impact of presidential immunity.

While that usually happens quickly, the most recent ratification, of the 27th Amendment regarding congressional-pay raises, took more than 200 years. A resolution to propose a constitutional ...

Given Congress’s express deadline, how can Biden plausibly claim the ERA is now supreme law? His supporters could tenuously point to the 27th Amendment’s circuitous ratification. In 1789, Congress ...

Just before leaving office President Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment the law of the land. If only.

A post from the Constitution Center from last month noted just how difficult and rare passing an amendment is, intentionally so. Since the 27th Amendment was ratified in 1992, more than 1,400 have ...