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Passed in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to further centralize ...

In this way, Plessy rejected not only the Reconstruction Amendments, but the philosophy behind them. The amendments were built on the idea that the right approach to race issues was to protect all ...

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 ...

Still, if people want a broader sense of what’s coming down the pike in the months and years ahead, it’s instructive to look ...

The suppression of freedom in the southern states convinced the Reconstruction Congress and supporters of the Union to add an amendment forcing the states to respect the rights announced in the first ...

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 ...

Utilities commonly impacted during street reconstruction include pipes or other structures for water service, stormwater and ...

when many of the country’s biggest legal and political battles are centered on the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted in 1868 as the central Reconstruction amendment. We also wanted to examine the ...

An amendment to the Urban and Residential Environment Maintenance Act, which relaxes the requirements for establishing reconstruction project cooperatives, passed the National Assembly's plenary ...

ALMATY, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan's Senate has ratified amendments paving the way for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to gradually expand its operations to Sub-Saharan ...