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 26th Amendment, ratified ...
Iowans will decide this November if the legal voting age and language around citizenship should be changed in the state constitution. The proposed changes are one of two constitutional amendments that ...
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 ...
Our constitution has been amended only 27 times in its 236 years of existence. It is very hard to change. In fact, the U.S. Constitution, among all national constitutions, is the most difficult to ...
The Constitution of Pakistan rests upon a delicate balance between its three organs: the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary. This balance is not ornamental. It is the very mechanism through ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowans passed two constitutional amendments that appeared on the ballot this year. Keep an eye on election results here. One of the amendments clears up what happens if ...
Exclusionary language does not belong in the Iowa Constitution Many states pile on in response to imagined immigrant-voting crisis Iowans should reject an unnecessary and exclusionary change to the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 26th Amendment, ratified in July 1971, reduced the minimum age to vote in any election, federal or state, from 21 to 18. The ...