Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the ...

Two of them were proposed amendments to the Georgia Constitution and the other was a House Bill. Approved This amendment will ...

The story of the Ninth Amendment’s adoption begins with the decision by the Philadelphia convention to omit a bill of rights from the original Constitution of 1787. The absence of a bill of ...

Georgia’s law, referred to by supporters as the “heartbeat bill” and ... citing the state’s constitution, which some legal experts have said grants more expansive rights to privacy than ...

Zourabichvili rejected the bill without ... Church, Georgia has become ever more hostile to LGBTQ+ people. Polls show broad ...

On Thursday, the Senate voted down a bill legalizing horse racing that ... pass – could be implemented as soon as this year. Georgia Constitution limits only specific kinds of betting or ...

Although the word "slavery" does not appear in the Constitution, Georgia and South Carolina ... of Independence and the Virginia Bill of Rights, stating that "all men are born free and equal." ...

Many of the rights in the Bill of Rights apply to those accused ... one of the most important and innovative concepts in the U.S. Constitution, although the word never appears there.

Ten years ago, Illinois became the second state in the U.S. to approve a constitutional amendment that expands rights for ...

After a failed push to pass a community solar bill in the last ... the electric grid,” said Georgia Power’s Kraft. Experts who spoke to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution mostly disagreed ...

On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Virginia was the tenth of fourteen states to ratify the ...