As promised, my new paper on the Equal Rights Amendment, "The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA," is now available on SSRN. The paper lays out new historical evidence on prior Article V amendments ...
There’s just one problem for a potential Vice President Newsom: the 12th Amendment. The amendment outlines how presidential ...
“The 14th Amendment was designed to overturn this decision and define citizenship once and for all, and it was based on ...
That scenario has never been tested in practice and would be sure to face legal challenges, as critics could argue it conflicts with the 12th Amendment, which states, “No person constitutionally ...
It is pertinent to note that the 22nd Amendment does not bar a President from being elected VP at a later date. Meanwhile the 12th Amendment insists that people who are ‘constitutionally ...
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the ...
Where a person is not liable to registration under the Act but is required to make any payment under the provisions of the ...
The 12th Amendment — enacted after the election of 1800, in which Thomas Jefferson tied with his running mate Aaron Burr — changed this section and required that president and vice president ...
The 22nd Amendment does not bar a term-limited president from being elected vice president. On the other hand, the 12th Amendment does state that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the ...