The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known as the “Reconstruction Amendments,” but what happens if one or all of them get stripped from American history? Trump Taking a Page From a ...

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 ...

And definitely yes, “it was the Republican party that drafted and ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which did away with slavery and any distinction between Americans based on race.” ...

Federal civil rights enforcement policy in the 1950s and 1960s was principally based on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. In 1968, however, the Supreme Court approved a dramatic expansion ...

Howard community members discuss the blend of law and democracy at 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy launch event.

Though the language of the Fifteenth Amendment prohibits all ... on Reconstruction voted to report a version of the Fourteenth Amendment that explicitly embraced the principle of race-blind ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in ...

Support your local PBS station in our mission to inspire, enrich, and educate.

This was eliminated by the 14th Amendment, which established equal protection of the laws and due process for all. Critics of the Tea Party point to this clause in the original constitution as ...

Hungary's parliament has passed a constitutional amendment banning public events organised by LGBTQ+ communities. The ...