With Democrats calling the changes an “assault on the very spirit of Florida’s democracy,” the Republican-controlled Legislature on Friday finalized a plan that will impose additional hurdles on the ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday morning announced plans to reform Florida’s petition and amendment process, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability. The proposal, set ...

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 they ...

Ben Sheehan explains how, and how often, Americans have changed their Constitution. How do we change the U.S. Constitution? We’ve done it 27 times – is that too many or too few? Ben Sheehan explains ...

The modern Florida Constitution was adopted in 1968. But it’s still being written. Floridians have voted to modify the state’s governing charter in almost every election cycle since then. In this year ...

The Iowa state constitution is on display in Secretary of State Paul Pate's office in 2016. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread.

University of Houston political science professor and host of “Party Politics,” Brandon Rottinghaus explains the amendment process and why they’re important to Texas. Texas has one of the longest ...

Florida and Arkansas both recently added restrictions to the citizen amendment process, after ballot measures to expand abortion rights were successful in other states. By Emily Cochrane Reporting ...

Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is an effort to repeal by executive fiat the legal foundation underlying the Fourteenth Amendment, which the ruling class today views ...

Two hundred and fifty years after Americans declared independence from Britain and began writing the first state constitutions, it’s not the Constitution that’s dead. It’s the idea of amending it.