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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 ...

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known as the “Reconstruction Amendments,” but what happens if one or all of them get stripped from American history? Trump Taking a Page From a ...

Thus, the Equal Protection Clause can be understood only as an organic part of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the broader context of all the Reconstruction amendments. Under current Supreme Court ...

Most of Reconstruction legislation is far ahead ... did not do it under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment has still not been interpreted to allow Congress to bar private ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in ...

The Reconstruction amendment, ratified in 1868, during the post-Civil War era, includes a citizenship clause that states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to ...