Passed in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to further centralize ...
It’s the part of the Constitution that guarantees all Americans something Republicans despise: equal protection under the law ...
Most of Reconstruction legislation is far ahead ... did not do it under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment has still not been interpreted to allow Congress to bar private ...
The Fourteenth Amendment did not guarantee ... In this way, Plessy rejected not only the Reconstruction Amendments, but the philosophy behind them. The amendments were built on the idea that ...
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The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who ...
The suppression of freedom in the southern states convinced the Reconstruction Congress and supporters ... But rather than eradicate state autonomy, the people embraced the Fourteenth Amendment that ...
In her speech, Jackson states that the Framers of the 14th Amendment adopted it “in ... the freedmen in — during the reconstructive — reconstruction period were actually brought equal ...
the inability or unwillingness to enforce either Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment or the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment was the Achilles’ heel of emancipation in the Reconstruction ...