As we celebrate our nation's founding in a tumultuous time, holiday serves as a reminder to appreciate the freedoms enshrined ...

Five Choctaw constitutional amendments are on a July 12, 2025, ballot alongside the nation's regularly scheduled Tribal ...

Vickie McClure and Regina Mabray are competing in the July 12, 2025, race for District 12 of the Choctaw Nation Tribal ...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Trump a win by lifting blocks on his efforts to end birthright citizenship for ...

The Constitution, like faith, must be honoured, protected and upheld – for once its sanctity is lost, the risk is not just the erosion of legal provisions, but the very soul of the nation itself.

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The 17th Amendment incorporated the Legal Framework Order, 2002, promulgated by Musharraf, which had amended almost 29 Articles of the Constitution.

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Seventeenth Amendment ...

Washington State’s Republican Party approved a resolution calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators.

They became so bad that a federal income tax (the 16th Amendment) and direct elections of Senators (17th Amendment) were added to the Constitution in the same year.

The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how ...

The Aug. 5 letter “GOP attempts to hold power” contends that it would be a violation of the Constitution, specifically the 17th amendment, for the Kentucky Legislature to require the ...