Sentence examples for war amendments from inspiring English sources

The post-Civil War amendments were a turning point.

The Civil War amendments cleansed the document of the overt stain of slavery.

Those were the greatest legal advances in race relations since the Civil War amendments.

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

That determination of the body empowered to enforce the Civil War Amendments "by appropriate legislation" merits this Court's utmost respect.

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.

First, the Civil War amendments-the amendments that give us the Equal Protection principle-marked the replacement of slavery with sharecropping and wage labor.

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

Last: Bob says court rulings previously concluded that it violates the 14th Amendment to eliminate some preferences, like affirmative action, while keeping others intact like athletic scholarships and alumni legacies...not to mention the irony of those opposed to programs for racial minorities citing the great Civil War Amendment designed to help African Americans.

The civil-war amendments were rammed down the throats of 19th-century white southerners, as well they should have been.

These post-civil-war amendments expanded it.But if a more powerful and active federal government is one enduring legacy of the war, another is distrust and even hatred of that government.