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 ...

On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order attacking birthright citizenship, the constitutional right giving automatic citizenship to any person born in the states ...

On Feb. 3, 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's ...

Opinion: Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers writes regularly about civics education and the U.S. Constitution.

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

Eric Foner, a Columbia University historian told NPR, "Because of the 15th Amendment, you can't pass laws saying blacks can't vote, which is what they wanted to do … But the 15th Amendment ...

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ...

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The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It is the third day of Black History Month and WTOC has the Black history fact of the day. On February ...

Americans have demonstrated, fought, lobbied, struck, boycotted, politicked, suffered, and voted so nearly every adult ...