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 ...

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 this day in history, Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — granting African American men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the "right of ...

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 ...

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

The Dallas firm leading the challenge had previously offered the Keller school district a “path” to avoid litigation.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution in the wake of the Civil War. The president does not have the authority to erase protections set forth in an amendment to the Constitution.