“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” The amendment’s first section begins: “All persons born or naturalized in the United ...

There’s power in the Reconstruction Amendments to upend all of these voter suppression schemes. “There’s a lot of latent power, unused but still there, in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments ...

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