Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented.

Vote "no" on this cynical and needless change to the language on who's eligible to vote in Iowa, writes the Register's ...

Democrat Representative Jamie Raskin claimed the 14th Amendment included provisions to halt Trump’s march to the Oval Office ...

The Supreme Court declined to hear several First Amendment appeals on Monday, ditching a case that dealt with a requirement ...

It’s shocking for many of us to learn that forced labor is actually legal as punishment for a crime. Ballot measures in ...

Sure, privileged white guys like me can enjoy marijuana with little risk. But over 200,000 Americans are still being arrested ...

The section also barred any future Congress from paying for Confederate war debts or to the owners of emancipated slaves. So, was the 14th Amendment’s debt provision limited to Civil War debt?

The federal False Claims Act (“FCA”) is the United States’ primary civil tool for prosecuting fraud against the government.

The emergency Premier League meeting to discuss the outcome of Manchester City’s associated-party arbitration will be held on ...

The Colorado Supreme Court used a Civil War-era constitutional amendment to ban Donald Trump from the ballot The US Supreme Court is expected to rule on Monday on whether states can use an anti ...

When the Civil War broke out, Strother joined Company G ... communities by both white and Black residents. When the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was formally adopted on March 30 ...