Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution ... born in the United States, including ...

Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution ... born in the United States, including ...

The right of citizens of the United States ... to the current Fifteenth Amendment. However, a number of prominent Republicans complained that this narrow language would allow states intentionally ...

The right of citizens of the United States to ... by three-fourths of the states in 1920. Sargent’s proposal simply repeated the language of the Fifteenth Amendment save for one change: whereas ...

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14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution in the wake of the Civil War. The 14th Amendment, which guarantees to anyone born within the United States the rights and protections of citizenship ...