27 Amendments · Ratification to today
Constitution 1776
For each amendment: how many federal, state, and local laws are materially connected to it — and whether that body of legislation leans left, right, or neither. The classification rates the laws, never the amendment itself.
Aggregate lean · connected legislation
27/27
analyzed
LeftNeutralRight
43.0%
Left-leaning
31.7%
Mixed
25.4%
Right-leaning
Left-leaning Mixed / neutral Right-leaning
Law counts are historically defensible estimates, not exact tallies — a comprehensive count of every county and municipal ordinance ever enacted does not exist. Ideological classification follows substantive policy effect in the context of each law's own era, not modern party labels.