[1.] The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. [2.] The transportation or importation into any State,Territory, or possession of the United ...

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 ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment ... the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution ...

T he American Civil War ended in the late spring of 1865 with a decisive Union military victory. Despite being defeated militarily, the former Confederacy made no effort to change its treatment of ...

Perhaps most spectacularly, American Communists for a time offered a similar self-determination critique of the Constitution, proposing nothing less than to break off part of the United States.

U.S. CONSTITUTION. WE THE PEOPLE. THE FIRST THREE WORDS OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION THE BEDROCK ... COTTON LOOKS TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT. THERE’S NO IMMIGRANT EXCEPTION TO THE FOURTH ...

On March 22, 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, sending the measure to the states for ratification in order for it to become a part of the U.S. Constitution, the ultimate law ...

Learn about the fascinating role of voting in the United States Lisa ... of the conquered Confederate states worked together to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment, giving African American men the ...