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3 days ago · The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments represented stunning expansions of the rights of citizenship to former slaves. Even during the depths of the Jim Crow era in the early twentieth century, white supremacists never succeeded in returning citizenship to its pre-Civil War boundaries.
4 days ago · The next wave of constitutional amendments is more than a few years out but will arrive sooner than we think. So which proposals might prevail? For any amendment to reach ratification, it must address a genuinely constitutional issue while garnering wide public support and overcoming partisan divisions, a high bar under the best of circumstances.
5 days ago · President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave this speech in Philadelphia at the Democratic National Convention in 1936, at which he was nominated for a second term. In it, he explained why New Deal reforms and spending programs were necessary. Roosevelt likened the 1930s struggle with monopolists and big business “tyrants” to the Patriots’ efforts to establish political freedom in the 1770s.
4 days ago · Ten of the proposed 12 amendments were ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures on December 15, 1791. The ratified Articles (Articles 3–12) constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, or the U.S. Bill of Rights.
3 days ago · In the annals of American history, the repeal of Prohibition through the 21st Amendment stands as a beacon of liberty, illuminating the path towards individual freedom and societal evolution. Enacted in 1933, this constitutional amendment not only liberated the nation from the shackles of alcohol prohibition but also heralded a broader resurgence of autonomy and self-determination. To ...
4 days ago · Published: May 31, 2024. Issues: Federalism. Categories: In The News. Tags: federa. Genuine accountability to hardworking taxpayers results when state and local legislators work with members of the community to determine a plan of action that is right for each individual state, city or town.
2 days ago · The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
