We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice. Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at ...
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The right and the left don’t agree on how they’d like to change the Constitution, but ...
In the early 1970s, buoyed by bipartisan support, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex. A rush of state ratifications ...