2014, Illinois voters approved the Illinois Right to Vote Amendment, a legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the Constitution of Illinois. The...

Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens...

constitutional amendment. Illinois voters approved the Illinois Right to Vote Amendment, a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The amendment was designed...

Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification...

federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It...

The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791, along...

the Twenty-sixth Amendment. Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied...

the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, setting the stage for future expansions to voting rights. November 3: The right of African American...

In order to be referred to voters, a proposed constitutional amendment must receive a vote of 60% approval in both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly...

Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Usually considered...

constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability (generally considered to be between 23 and 24 weeks gestational age). A 60% supermajority vote is required...

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would, if added, explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It was...

The Sixth Amendment (Amendment VI) to the United States Constitution sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions. It was ratified in 1791 as part...

Eligibility to vote in the United States is governed by the United States Constitution and by federal and state laws. Several constitutional amendments (the...

The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which...

Twenty-third Amendment (Amendment XXIII) to the United States Constitution extends the right to participate in presidential elections to the District...

Seventeenth Amendment and his right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Third Circuit rejected these arguments, ruling that the Seventeenth Amendment does...

The Illinois Fair Tax was a proposed amendment to the Illinois state constitution that would have effectively changed the state income tax system from...

Halbrook was one of five Illinois representatives to vote against the Illinois Right to Vote Amendment on its passage in the Illinois House of Representatives...

assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute...

Congress. The campaign to establish women's right to vote in the states was conducted simultaneously with the campaign for an amendment to the United States...

specifically voting on the amendment or 50% support among all ballots cast in the elections. Voters approved the Illinois Criminal Defendants' Right to Meet Witnesses...

Act to invalidate such local ordinances. In a 2022 referendum, voters in Illinois approved a state constitutional amendment establishing a right to collective...

U.S. politics, the Hyde Amendment is a legislative provision barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortion, except to save the life of the woman...

Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal...

statewide. Illinois, along with Pennsylvania, elects delegates in party by congressional district, separately from the statewide preference vote. Each district...

House of Representatives and the process of cumulative voting. Before the amendment, the Illinois General Assembly was divided into 59 legislative districts...

Re-Election Amendment, a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, was put to a vote. It would have amended Section 8 of Article X of the Illinois Constitution...

constitutional amendment to replace the Electoral College with a simpler two-round system based on the national popular vote similar to that used in French...

Illinois County Board is thought to have to have popularized the term on April 16, 2018. Examples of the resolutions include the Second Amendment Preservation...