The US Constitution has stood the test of time but it is not immutable. Discover how many amendments have been made to the Constitution since its adoption.
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. 欢迎来到《建国史话》-VOA慢速美国历史栏目 Last week in our series, we described how the Constitution became law once nine of America's first thirteen states ratified it. 上周,我们讲述了宪法在得到美国前13个州中的9...
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What it does: Amends Missouri’s state constitution to include a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which includes abortion. It allows the state to regulate abortion after 24 weeks — the point of fetal viability — except to protect the health or mental health of the pregnant patient. ...
In New Orleans, the city council mulled over three potential reasons for removing four public monuments with ties to the Confederacy: 1) whether the monuments violated the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution by promoting the supremacy of one race over another; 2) whether they had become ...
"THE PEOPLE made the Constitution, and THE PEOPLE can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will." Abraham Lincoln stated in a debate with Stephen Douglas: "THE PEOPLE of these United States...
Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.” (Section 8-Article 1) These branches helped America become better it improved the structure of America. After the Constitution was made the Bill of Rights was...
Constitution. Freedom of Expression: ACLU Briefing Paper Number 10 "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." -- The First Amendment The ...
In addition to declaring that he thinks states cannot bar residents from traveling to another state to obtain an abortion, Justice Kavanaugh strongly suggested that he thinks the Constitution requires abortion bans to include an exception when necessary to save the life of a mother. ...
How did we get from there, a time when sexual behavior and expression seemed irrelevant to the U.S. Constitution—to here, an era in which most people assume that the Constitution protects a wide range of sexual expression and behavior? This is my big idea inHow Sex Became a Civil Libert...