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 ...

The 15th Amendment to the Bangladesh Constitution was passed in 2011 by the then Awami League government of Sheikh Hasina. It ...

The 15th amendment in 2011 scrapped the 13th amendment, which had introduced the non-party caretaker government system in ...

Bangladesh's attorney general proposes removing 'secularism' and 'socialism' from the Constitution, questioning provisions ...

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Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment ...

Eric Foner, a Columbia University historian told NPR, "Because of the 15th Amendment, you can't pass laws saying blacks can't vote, which is what they wanted to do … But the 15th Amendment ...

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ...

Again, Southern states did not wish to ratify this new amendment. However, Congress swiftly decreed that ratification was a ...

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 ...

Adopted essentially as an enforcement mechanism for the 15th Amendment’s guarantee that the right to vote cannot be abridged “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” Section 2 ...