Iowa is among 26 states that does not have a process that allows citizens an opportunity to begin the process of amending the state constitution; that process currently is started by state lawmakers.

The sponsor of the resolution, state Rep. Nico Rios of Williston, used racist and homophobic slurs to verbally abuse two ...

Critically for Trump’s purposes, the amendment is not restricted to consecutive terms. Virtually every constitutional scholar ...

No U.S. president has ever gone after the 14th Amendment before, but Trump’s birthright citizenship attack isn’t the first ...

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution, reports ...

"When I heard that President Trump signed an Executive Order that would deny my child United States citizenship, my world ...

One of the biggest issues of the new Trump term is birthright citizenship. The president is pushing back against it with an ...

There are 24 U.S. states that allow for citizen-led ballot initiatives, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Iowa is not among them. Some politicians want to change that.

Article 5 speaks on how our democracy is fluid and how the Constitution allows us a process to amend it when deemed necessary. In short, for an amendment ... against the United States,” as ...

Trump issued an executive order that would erase part of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to all children ...

The First Amendment contains five freedoms: religion, speech, press, assembly and the right to petition the government. The ...

In the week since he took office, Donald Trump has wielded the power of the presidency to do what no president before him has ...