Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution ... born in the United States, including ...

The right of citizens of the United States ... to the current Fifteenth Amendment. However, a number of prominent Republicans complained that this narrow language would allow states intentionally ...

14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution in the wake of the Civil War. The 14th Amendment, which guarantees to anyone born within the United States the rights and protections of citizenship ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on May 15 on the federal government’s request to be allowed to implement President ...

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...

“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to ... and deal with the rights of all people in the United States.

Of the Civil War Amendments ... of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the ...

Those are the Fifth and 14th Amendments. The United States Constitution is not a gaudy skyscraper on Fifth Avenue, with the name "TRUMP" in gold letters. Quite the opposite: It says “WE THE ...