In the United States, each state has its own written constitution. They are much longer than the United States Constitution, which only contains 4,543...

created new constitutions or updated older constitutions, a process which Sanford Levinson believes to be more difficult in the United States than in any other...

In the United States, there are both federal and state laws prohibiting treason. Treason is defined on the federal level in Article III, Section 3 of...

the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution...

court. While many state constitutions are modeled after the United States Constitution and federal laws, those state constitutions did not necessarily...

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental...

The United States Constitution has served as the supreme law of the United States since taking effect in 1789. The document was written at the 1787 Philadelphia...

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

Six of the United States Constitution establishes the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land,...

The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution established a nationally standardized minimum age of 18 for participation...

The Preamble to the United States Constitution, beginning with the words We the People, is a brief introductory statement of the US Constitution's fundamental...

The Third Amendment (Amendment III) to the United States Constitution places restrictions on the quartering (the placement and/or sheltering) of soldiers...

The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. It expresses the...

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting...

Jesup Stimson, The Law of the Federal and State Constitutions of the United States; Book One, Origin and Growth of the American Constitutions, 2004, Introductory...

particular State'. Who, then, in the United States is destitute of rights? ... The States are recognized as governments, and, when their own constitutions permit...

Wikiversity The Green Papers: Constitutions of the states The Green Papers: State constitutions, an explanation The Green Papers: Links to state constitutions Citings...

of the United States Constitution describes the procedure for altering the Constitution. Under Article Five, the process to alter the Constitution consists...

The Twelfth Amendment (Amendment XII) to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the president and vice president. It replaced...

The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. It prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and...

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime...

The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. The...

The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's...

This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial...

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

Seven of the United States Constitution sets the number of state ratifications necessary for the Constitution to take effect and prescribes the method through...

The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) to the United States Constitution limits the number of times a person can be elected to the office of President...

The Eleventh Amendment (Amendment XI) is an amendment to the United States Constitution which was passed by Congress on March 4, 1794, and ratified by...

The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII, also known as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789) to the United States Constitution states that...

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