As promised, my new paper on the Equal Rights Amendment, "The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA," is now available on SSRN. The paper lays out new historical evidence on prior Article V amendments ...

If no candidate wins a majority, the House selects the president from the top three candidates by majority ballot vote, according to the 12th Amendment. Each state delegation gets one vote ...

The 12th Amendment provides that, in the counting of electoral votes, the president of the Senate (the vice president) shall “in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives ...

Passed by Congress December 9, 1803. Ratified June 15, 1804. Note: A portion of Article II, section 1 of the Constitution was superseded by the 12th amendment. The Electors shall meet in their ...

Three days from the end of his term, President Biden just announced that he has "long believed" the Equal Rights Amendment to be valid law: I have ...

Hence, they proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution, 10 of which were ratified as the Bill of Rights. Part of the workable compromise between these two sets of patriots resulted in the ...

ARTICLE 12. -- No amendment shall be made to the constitution which shall authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof ...

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to ...