Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...
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.” ...
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be ... The word “male” did not even appear in the Constitution until the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868.