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 his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order attacking birthright citizenship, the ...

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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 goal should not be to simply restore legal hurdles, but to build a wall preventing corporations and the super-rich from ...