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 ...

but the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution plays a critical role in supporting some of our closest-held notions of American freedom and equality. For one, it clearly states that ...

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 The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.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

Beyond the fact that the 14th Amendment was enacted 92 years after the birth of the United States, the dissenting justices criticized the majority for imposing on the U.S. Constitution “feudal” and ...

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 ...

This story has been updated to clarify the use of the 14th amendment ... she asked "Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?," in reference to the Supreme ...

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.