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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing a change to the United States Constitution. The state's legislature on Thursday approved a resolution in support of Newsom's call for a 28th Constitutional amendment, according to the Los Angeles Times. The amendment would enshrine a list of Democratic gun-control policy priorities into federal law. California is requesting a Constitutional convention to enshrine the amendment. For the amendment to be considered, two-thirds of state legislatures would have to vote in favor of a convention, according to the Times. The proposed "Right to Safety Amendment" would limit legal gun ownership to adults 21 and older,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday proposed a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution in what he describes as an effort to end America’s gun violence crisis. “The gun lobby says we can’t stop the carnage America now experiences every day without violating the 2nd Amendment – that thoughts and prayers are the best we can do… that’s a lie,” Newsom said in a statement.

On this day 50 years ago, Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Within one year, 30 states had ratified it, fueling hopes that the ERA would soon become the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But a half-century later, the ERA is mired in legal uncertainty. The Supreme Court of the United States could ultimately strike it down as unconstitutional. The ERA is short but important. It declares that "equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." The ERA would give Congress the power...

Amendments by Acclamation: Democrats Move to Simply Declare the Equal Rights Amendment as RatifiedBelow is my column in the Hill on the Democratic campaign to simply declare the Equal Rights Amendment ratified as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. The question is whether raw politics is enough to shock the unratified and undead into life.Here is the column:Madison, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin: The names of great constitutional figures are etched in the minds of every schoolchild. But soon, if Democrats in Congress have their way, they will add one more: David Ferriero.Who is David Ferriero, you ask? He is 10th Archivist...

North Dakota has joined 26 other states in passing a resolution calling for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, though some Republican lawmakers feel it doesn’t go far enough to rein in Congress and other branches of the federal government. The state Senate passed a resolution Tuesday asking Congress to call a convention for the sole purpose of proposing an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. “If we want fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C., it has to come from the states. We have to be bold in our approach to them,” said Sen. Dick Dever, R-Bismarck, a sponsor...

RICHMOND, Va. — Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment are so confident Virginia is on the verge of becoming the critical 38th state to ratify the gender equality measure, they are already making plans for how they will celebrate. But that jubilation could be largely symbolic. Despite broad support for the amendment in the state, the ERA’s prospects nationally are substantially more complicated. The proposed 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution faces a host of likely legal challenges and vehement opposition from conservative activists who depict the ERA as a threat to their stances on abortion and transgender rights.

After "behind-closed-doors deal, announced right after Congress is safely away from the crime scene on break, was fully supported by establishment Republicans." Republicans in the House and Senate are on fire over the news that the White House will exempt members of Congress and their staff from Obamacare’s exchanges. One pair of congressmen even have a constitutional amendment that would require members to live under the same laws as every other American, though they said Thursday’s introduction coinciding with the exemption report was just good timing. “Well, on the very day that Matt Salmon and I introduce a constitutional amendment...

“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”—Patrick Henry (1736-1799) I’ve heard people compare the Obama Administration to Jimmy Carter’s, Bubba Clinton’s, and even Richard Nixon’s. I was around for all of those administrations, and I’m here to tell you that such comparisons are, in a word, bull… nonsense. None of those other administrations can hold a candle to Obama’s “Hype and Chains” regime. [snip] Only the most dedicated kool-aid drinkers, and willfully ignorant, can deny that we’re at the end-game of a global plan to forcefully separate humanity...

An article published yesterday, December 7, 2009 ... asks readers if they would support a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ... 92% either agree or strongly agree with supporting such a concept. The article presented information regarding the Constitution of the United States ... It then goes on to present a possible 28th Amendment which could read: AMENDMENT XXVIII "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to United States Senators and those of the House of Representatives; likewise, Congress shall make no law that applies to the...

The Constitution of the United States is the most important document in United States history following The Declaration of Independence. It was signed September 17, 1787 by George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin ... with "the Unanimous Consent of the States" ... The Constitution establishes the legislative powers that govern our nation via Congress "which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." ... Just two years later in 1789 the Bill of Rights was established "in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers" by adding ten (10) Amendments to the Constitution. Over the next...

"What's Wrong With the Flagburning Amendment," by Prof. Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law   "Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States, and the flying of the Confederate flag." OK, so that's not exactly how the proposed flag protection amendment reads -- I've added the Confederate flag phrase.  But this little thought experiment helps show that the flag protection amendment is a bad idea. After all, burning the U.S. flag and flying the Confederate flag are similar in many ways.  Some people argue that flagburning shouldn't be protected by the First...

Hatch, who has known Schwarzenegger for at least a decade, introduced the Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment in July 2003. It would allow people who have been citizens for 20 years to serve as president. Schwarzenegger was naturalized in September 1983. In October 2003, four days before California's recall election that made Schwarzenegger governor, the Utah senator said in a speech in Washington that he could see Schwarzenegger as president. "If he turns out to be a tremendous leader and he proves to everybody in this country that he's totally dedicated to this country as an American," Hatch said, "we...

Congressional continuityOliver North (archive) June 20, 2003 | Print | SendWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Herman Khan, the brilliant thinker who founded the Hudson Institute, used to call it "thinking the unthinkable." Edward Teller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb, described it as "prudent planning for the ultimate catastrophe." Bill Baker, the genius from Bell Labs, once told me it was the "most difficult engineering challenge" he ever faced. And Gen. Andy Goodpaster, the nation's first national security advisor, called it, "a strategy for democratic survival." They were all correct, and they were all talking about the same thing -- a tightly held,...