President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...
As promised, my new paper on the Equal Rights Amendment, "The Twelfth Amendment ... right now—part of the Constitution is a matter of serious dispute. Thirty-eight states have sought to ratify ...
While it’s all but certain Trump allies can’t change the Constitution—modifying the 22nd Amendment—the president could try to ...
The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution was proposed by Congress ... former president can serve as Vice ...
Passed by Congress March 2, 1932. Ratified January 23, 1933. Note: Article I, section 4, of the Constitution was modified by section 2 of this amendment. In addition, a portion of the 12th amendment ...
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the ... By virtue of the Twelfth Amendment, the qualifications for vice president are the same.
Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the ...
Edmund Randolph of Virginia (who had introduced the Virginia Plan) thought the Constitution was ... “of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.” Dating documents to ...
On the other hand, the 12th Amendment does state that ... imposes on the vice president the Constitution’s other criteria for presidential eligibility, namely that they be a natural-born citizen of ...
President Trump’s order challenges the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause, prompting lawsuits from 18 states and the ACLU.
The last line of the 12th Amendment says, “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.” And part of the 22nd ...