amendments

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In the next few months, the Supreme Court will issue a spate of potentially landmark rulings on the meaning of the Reconstruction Amendments.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

That reform followed the 1983 Social Security Amendments, which adjusted taxes and benefits to stabilize the system at the time.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026

But under pressure to react, Congress required, through the Kefauver-Harris Amendments of 1962, proof of efficacy before granting marketing approval.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The framers wanted to make it neither too easy nor too difficult to tweak the Constitution: Amendments must be proposed by a two-thirds majority of Congress and then ratified by three-fourths of the states.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

It was not long before some opponents of female suffrage deliberately used Victoria Woodhull’s other prominent positions to divert public attention from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling