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 ...

The General Assembly has passed the joint resolution ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. HARRISBURG, Thursday, March 11. The State Senate has ratified the ...

The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms ... at the Amendments and how they relate to society today. “The Fifteenth Amendment gave citizens the right to vote, no matter their race, color ...

[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 The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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 ...

Here is the first sentence of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof ...

This would be the shortest amendment in our Constitution, thirteen words: “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine Justices.” That is the language of the proposed ...

A replica of the United ... of States is planning for and promoting this highly unrepresentative, undemocratic method of amendment: It would enable a minority of Americans to amend our Constitution.

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 ...

Sometimes it took a case or multi-state cases to decide. Amendment X: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.