The Fourtheenth Amendment has been used in divisive ways, giving the lie to its claim of “equal protection” under the law. We ...

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And definitely yes, “it was the Republican party that drafted and ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which did away with slavery and any distinction between Americans based on race.” ...

“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” The amendment’s first ...

The Forum put immigration in historical context in a discussion of the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution.

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 ...

13th Amendment is least cited of Reconstruction ... Opposed by many of the former defeated Confederate states after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was finally ratified so that all states ...

This was eliminated by the 14th Amendment, which established equal protection of the laws and due process for all. Critics of the Tea Party point to this clause in the original constitution as ...

And by the end of December 2024, the 13th session of Standing Committee of the 14th NPC decided to submit the draft amendment to the Law on Deputies to the National People's Congress and Local ...