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 ...

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

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 ...

The first 10 came right away in the Bill of Rights, two more prior to 1804 and three right after the Civil War. Only six amendments have been adopted in the past 100 years, and one of those was to ...