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 ...

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 ...

They're only half emancipated after the Civil War. Final emancipation ... and of course the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, remain in the Constitution. They're "sleeping giants," somebody ...

although Lincoln did not live to see the ratification of the amendment in December 1865. Our collections provide many perspectives on the Civil War and give a fuller understanding of this epic event.

Manchester City have launched another stinging attack on the Premier League as English football’s civil war rumbles on ... League to a tribunal following amendments to its rules on associated ...

Hostilities between Manchester City and the Premier League are intensifying ahead of a crunch vote as they ferociously attack ...

The Colorado Supreme Court used a Civil War-era constitutional amendment to ban Donald Trump from the ballot The US Supreme Court is expected to rule on Monday on whether states can use an anti ...

However, that changed and the first income tax in the U.S. was levied to pay for the Civil War and provided a snapshot of the revenue that income taxes could raise. The 16th Amendment gave ...