Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

In “America’s Deadliest Election,” Dana Bash and David Fisher detail an especially dangerous episode of political unrest.

Gun rights advocates talk about the right to bear arms during the 15th annual Second Amendment March at the Capitol ...

Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment ...

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ...

The amendments to the QPAM Exemption include a September 15, 2024 notification deadline that will apply to many asset ...

DeSantis has been passionate in advocating against the proposal, which would repeal Florida’s existing ban on most abortions ...

The Civil War had been over for five years. Reconstruction of the war-torn South was proceeding when Congress ratified the 15th Amendment, giving recently freed slaves the right to vote.

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Adopted essentially as an enforcement mechanism for the 15th Amendment’s guarantee that the right to vote cannot be abridged “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” Section 2 ...

The High Court has issued a rule questioning the legality of the 15th Amendment of the constitution, which scrapped the provisions for a caretaker government. A bench led by Justice Naima Haider ...

Your fifth amendment right to due process? Your sixth amendment right to a speedy trial with an impartial jury? Your fifteenth amendment right to vote? All of them? If Trump is elected ...