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 ...

In an extraordinary interview broadcast Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Donald Trump repeatedly proclaimed that, as president ...

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 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 ...

While the Fourth of July may mark the birth of our nation, September 17, the date of the signing of the U.S. Constitution that occurred right here in Philadelphia, is the birthday of our government.