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America's Reconstruction: From Civil War to a New Nation
The film discusses the aftermath of the Civil War, focusing on the devastation in the South and the challenges faced by ...
A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity
‘Kill the last damned one:’ The Memphis Race Massacre Exactly one year after the end of the Civil War, on April 9, 1866, ...
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Not Hard to Read 14th Amendment As Not Requiring Birthright Citizenship — and Nothing Odd About Supporting Such a Reading
Yet, every person present in the United States is not presumed to have fealty to the United States, which is what “jurisdiction” means in the Fourteenth Amendment. And it is clearly not the ...
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Birthright Citizenship: An American Idea That Works
The 14th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution ... appeared in the Civil Rights Act of 1866 that then-President Andrew Johnson vetoed. Johnson wrote that the language in question ...
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Andrew Johnson
Johnson decided that the Southern states were only required to swear fealty to the Union and incorporate the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, into their state constitutions -- all else was up ...