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Thus, the Equal Protection Clause can be understood only as an organic part of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the broader context of all the Reconstruction amendments. Under current Supreme Court ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in ...

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 ...

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 ...

13th Amendment is least cited of Reconstruction revisions, but its impact is powerful States’ citizens and inhabitants have the same privileges and immunities as under the federal jurisdiction.

The first time was at the 1787 constitutional Convention. The second time was during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the Civil War when the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were adopted. Even ...

As previously reported, South Huron was successful in receiving as much as a maximum of $3 million from the province’s ...

Her 90-page article consists of five parts that trace the evolution of Fourth Amendment privacy from weak pre-Reconstruction protections through its development over the years, culminating in Boyd v.