Sentence examples for Post-civil war amendment from inspiring English sources

That post-Civil War amendment contains a section stating that "the validity of the public debt of the United States...shall not be questioned".

The post-Civil War amendments were a turning point.

Post-civil war amendments extended the concept person to African-Americans, ending slavery.

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.

The Supreme Court later ruled that most but not all of the protections of the Bill of Rights applied to the states under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, one of the post-Civil War amendments.

Curiously missing from Kramer's catalog of options is the unique power that Congress is given by several post-Civil War amendments, to enforce their provisions "by appropriate legislation".

It rebuked centuries of government-sanctioned black inferiority, and it began to give real force to the post-Civil War amendments to the Constitution, passed to lift up the freed slaves.

We can only anxiously await his views on the post-Civil War amendments, the 13th, 14th and 15th.

All three post-Civil War amendments provided -- crucially, in the minds of Stevens -- that "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation".

Again, W.E.B. Dubois noted how history has either forgotten the statesmen who forged the post-Civil War Amendments or subjected them to "attack and libel" in the cause of vilifying the merits of Reconstruction.

Examines the guarantees of individual rights and liberties stemming from the due process, equal protection, and other clauses in the Bill of Rights and post Civil War amendments.