the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — granting African American men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall ...

First introduced in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements for ratification. But its constitutionality is still an open question.

Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution ... born in the United States, including ...

The right of citizens of the United States ... to the current Fifteenth Amendment. However, a number of prominent Republicans complained that this narrow language would allow states intentionally ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of Congress to urge the passage of legislation guaranteeing voting ...

Of the Civil War Amendments ... of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the ...

The right of citizens of the United States to ... by three-fourths of the states in 1920. Sargent’s proposal simply repeated the language of the Fifteenth Amendment save for one change: whereas ...

While the Fourth of July may mark the birth of our nation, September 17, the date of the signing of the U.S. Constitution that occurred right here in Philadelphia, is the birthday of our government.