On this day in history, Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — granting African American men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the "right of ...
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Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution. The writers of the Fifteenth Amendment ...
Procedural due process examples are the right to counsel in ... We shall continue in the next column with the study of the 15th Amendment. Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and ...