The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified on March 30, 1870, and explicitly stated that voting rights shall not be “denied or ...

Voting rights for freed Black people proved a ... The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment produced three different versions of the document. The first of these prohibited states from denying ...

Saturday marks 154 years since the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution – Feb. 3, 1870 – which guaranteed Black men the right to vote. Given it’s Black History Month and ...

Voting rights for freed Black people proved a ... The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment produced three different versions of the document. The first of these prohibited states from denying ...

The top legal officer of the state called for declaring the 15th amendment unconstitutional, arguing that it violated the ...

and it produced the current language of the Fifteenth Amendment, which embraced only the prohibition on racial discrimination in voting, omitting any reference to the right to hold office.

In his arguments, the attorney general claimed that the 15th amendment was designed to entrench Awami League eventually ...

The 15th constitutional amendment has destroyed the charter’s basic structures -- democracy, right to vote, and free and fair polls, Sharif Bhuiyan, principal counsel for the five writ petitioners who ...

A hearing on the rule questioning the legality of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished the caretaker government system in 2011, will take place at the High Court on Oct 30.

The High Court has raised a legal question regarding the hearing of the rule on the 15th Amendment, as a case concerning the 13th Amendment remains pending in the Appellate Division. The court ...

During a hearing on the writ petition challenging the validity of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished the caretaker government system and addressed other significant issues, the ...