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President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

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 ...

Reconstruction Acts passed after the ... The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment produced three different versions of the document. The first of these prohibited states from denying citizens ...

In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least 87 Black men were elected to and served in the Arkansas General Assembly.

Under the Three-fifths Clause of the ... Amendment or the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment was the Achilles’ heel of emancipation in the Reconstruction period and the years that followed ...

Requirements for establishing cooperatives for promoting reconstruction ... Act will take effect three months after it is promulgated. In this plenary session, an amendment to the Private Rental ...