The 12th Amendment originates from issues with the original Constitution, which stated that each elector in the Electoral College cast two votes for president. The candidate with the majority of votes ...

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.

"Making Amends," the title of the Clinton Presidential Center's new special exhibition, is unlikely to set hearts throbbing. But its topic -- the 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution -- continues to ...