You won't believe how completely the Louisiana Lottery Company corrupted state government through systematic bribery from 1868-1893.

Con, er, Constitutional Convention, vote is coming in 2026. Boring? Yes. Important? Also yes. John Lindstrom breaks it down.

William Whipper, who had argued for enfranchising women at the 1868 constitutional convention, asserted Scott bribed legislators to escape impeachment. All the corruption caused schisms in the ...

This is a disagreeable statement to make, but it is the truth.” William Whipper, who had argued for enfranchising women at the 1868 constitutional convention, asserted Scott bribed legislators to ...

The agreement made during the 1787 Constitutional Convention counted an enslaved ... The measure was rendered unconstitutional in 1868 by the 14th Amendment, which granted equal protection and ...

Mr. MERRITT, from the Committee on Revision, presented a report as to the manner of submitting the Constitution to the ... to audit claims against the Convention, and in favor of directing the ...

One is by a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate; the other is by a constitutional convention called by ... The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, says that no state shall deprive ...

Following the Civil War in 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified ... "You got to basically put a constitutional convention, you got to put states on board. It's most certainly going to be ...

"You got to basically put a constitutional convention, you got to put states ... which was ratified in 1868. It states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to ...