On this day in history, Feb. 3, 1870, 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 ...

President Donald Trump again suggested he may try to run for a third term in office, despite limits set by the 12th and 22nd ...

An illustration of Black people in line to vote. Harper's Weekly Magazine. At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency in 1868, Americans were struggling to reconstruct a nation ...

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 ...

It included just 28 words, but a single sentence transformed the civil rights of women in the United States. It was Article I of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and it guaranteed that ...

On the prospect of a third presidential term, Trump says "There are methods which you could do it." The Constitution says ...

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 sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by ...

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 ...

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.

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