"In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter," says civil rights attorney Damon ...

The three amendments of the Reconstruction era radically transformed American life and the role of the federal government. The final section of each amendment grants Congress the power to enforce ...

LancasterHistory's newest museum has been accepted into a National Park Service network dedicated to the U.S. era of Reconstruction.

For the nation’s first 150 years, the process of amendment was the main path, she contends, by which the Constitution was reinterpreted.

More profoundly, it was a moral commitment: an effort to give federal teeth to the principles enshrined in the Reconstruction amendments.

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In a new filing, attorneys for Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan said she is improperly charged for five actions she took in her role as a judge.

Thomas argued that the “narrow, Reconstruction era statute” had “exceeded” its original designs, which he said were limited to enforcing the recently ratified Fourteenth Amendment.

Murray Rothbard called egalitarianism a “revolt against nature,” and he believed that the egalitarianism inherent in the ...

If you don’t think the Reconstruction Amendments are constitutional, and I suspect there are at least three votes on the court that don’t, then that’s the whole ball game.