The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...

Morrow of Kentucky signs his state's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ... During the early 20th century, suffragists focused their efforts on a ...

But the Twentieth Amendment became part of the Constitution only after decades ... of President William Jefferson Clinton by the United States House of Representatives in December 1998.

The first Inauguration Day was on April 30, 1789, when George Washington took the oath of office in New York City as the first president of the United States ... 20th Amendment to the Constitution ...

It may not be as oft-quoted as the First Amendment or as contested as the Second Amendment, but the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution ... “In the 20th century, more broader ...

Written in the wake of the Civil War as part of the Reconstruction effort to repair the rift between northern and southern states, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution deals ...

Note: A portion of Article II, section 1 of the Constitution was superseded by the 12th amendment. The Electors shall meet ... and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, ...

The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” ...

Of the Civil War Amendments ... of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the ...

We know that it means the children of former slaves are citizens. That was its stated purpose and the plain language of the ...

While the Fourth of July may mark the birth of our nation, September 17, the date of the signing of the U.S. Constitution that occurred right here in Philadelphia, is the birthday of our government.