Amendment 4 would have required future citizen-led initiatives to receive a majority vote in each congressional district.

COLUMBIA — Missouri Amendment 4 concerns the initiative petition process and is the subject of many political ads and campaigns. And while the words "initiative petition" might sound unfamiliar, the effects of initiative petitions can be felt throughout ...

After months of gathering signatures, filing petitions and navigating lawsuits, constitutional amendments that would protect or expand abortion rights are officially set to appear on the general election ballot in 10 states. Voters in the swing states ...

The seven members of the highest court in New York State, the Court of Appeals — Chief Judge Rowan Wilson and Associate Judges Jenny Rivera, Mike Garcia, Madeline Singas, Tony Cannataro, Shirley Troutman and Caitlin Halligan — all took the same oath on ...

Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is an effort to repeal by executive fiat the legal foundation underlying the Fourteenth Amendment, which the ruling class today views as incompatible with oligarchic rule. The amendment ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it. “The whole purpose of the Constitution,” Scalia ...

Whenever there's a procedural debate in the House, the discussion inevitably turns to why the amendment process has become so closed — especially to any opportunities for the minority party to offer its policy alternatives. The majority argues that it ...