Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment ...

On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order attacking birthright citizenship, the ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It is the third day of Black History Month and WTOC has the Black history fact of the day. On February ...

1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting Black American men the right to vote, was ratified. 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for a federal income ...

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The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

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 ...