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America Is Captive to One Ridiculous Legal Theory That Dictates Our Lives. Here’s What We Can Do.
The term “Reconstruction Amendments” refers to those amendments ratified shortly after the Civil War in order to reimagine and redefine citizenship and civil rights for Black Americans.
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This constitutional amendment revolutionized voting in U.S. and preceded women's suffrage
Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Fifteenth Amendment was the last of three Reconstruction Amendments. The first two were ratified in 1865 and 1868, respectively. The 15th ...
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A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Federal policy on slavery and race, particularly the three Reconstruction amendments, are the best-known legal innovations of the era. Change, however, permeated all levels of the legal system, ...