The 25th Amendment ensures continuity in the U.S. presidency, but its most controversial provision — Section 4 — has never been invoked. Gage Skidmore/Flickr The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has erupted ...
The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14 ...
The right and the left don’t agree on how they’d like to change the Constitution, but they do agree that changes need to be made. President Joe Biden, in his farewell address, called for an amendment ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after hundreds of years of enslavement. The crucial amendment would later serve ...