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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.