The first ten Amendments to the Constitution protect all of the basic freedoms of Americans and are known as the Bill of Rights. The most famous are perhaps the first, second and fifth Amendments.

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 ...

Legally. What’s this all about? Article V of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and we’re all familiar with that process.