…by the federal government but partly by the states, violates the Tenth Amendment, which the political right claims gives states autonomy amounting to sovereignty not much different than the sovereignty…

…lawsuit), conflict with the Supreme Court’s ruling two years ago in Citizens United v. FEC. Which parlayed the First Amendment free-speech right of individuals into a right of corporate CEOs…

…known as the Hyde Amendment. [skip] The Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to the newly-created health insurance exchanges. Under the Act, longstanding…

…end under this new amendment. The DeMint-Crapo amendment creates a reserve fund in the budget that could be used to fund legislation protecting Social Security. Social Security contributions are already…

The Triple-X Amendment Democrats need to highlight the idiocy of Bush’s proposed bigotry amendment. I think the best way to do that is to fight to attach bans on turpitude…

…“Since the *ratification* of the 22nd amendment ….” passage can refer to passage by two thirds of the House and the Senate. After the 22nd amendment was passed by congress…

…right. States are people entitled to equal protection of federal law under the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment. Corporations are people entitled to freely practice their religion under the First Amendment’s free…

…Iowa in April in which she said she would support a constitutional amendment, if necessary, to reverse Citizens United and get “unaccountable” money out of politics, she misrepresented that Citizens…

…Second Amendment between this right and the need for a “regulated militia. “This is where commas come in. What separates the two clauses of the Second Amendment is a comma,…

…to white males generally. While the primary reason for the Civil War was the elimination of slavery, the logical conclusion of that conflict was the Fifteenth Amendment, which prohibited denial…