On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order attacking birthright citizenship, the constitutional right giving automatic citizenship to any person born in the states ...

Finally, on March 30, 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment became part of the Constitution. To many, it felt like the last step of reconstruction. But just as some had predicted, Southerners found ways ...

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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 ...

The meaning of the clause is bound up with the entire drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction ... Amendment chose not to include political rights (such as the right to vote, which the Fifteenth ...

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 ...

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic ... voting rights that wouldn’t be more firmly cemented until the 15th Amendment was ratified two years later. Diehard ex-rebels used violence ...