The Fourteenth Amendment is the second of the three so-called Civil War (or Reconstruction) amendments. It is also one of the amendments most frequently cited in US case law. It was adamantly opposed...
Category - The Constitutional Amendments
The Thirteenth Amendment: The Constitutional Amendments
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution is the first of three so-called Civil War amendments, added to the Constitution right after the end of the war, to ensure the former slaves maintained...
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment: The Constitutional Amendments
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution was proposed by the first Congress in 1789, but wasn’t adopted to the Constitution until 1992. The amendment is simple, and deals with...