Search results for "Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 ... Presidential electors who meet every four years to cast the official ...55 KB (8,357 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist ... widely accepted and institutional racism and the degrading conditions of blacks ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... With respect to governmental information, a government distinguishes ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage ... She is probably most famous for her declaration to run for the United ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 06:00, 8 May 2020
- The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall… deny ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- fifty years of her life advocating for the social and legal equality ... Anthony's lifelong efforts were rewarded posthumously with the ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income). Raised ... tax formerly required for voting in parts of the United States that was often ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The Supreme Court is the only court established by the United States ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- 24, 1825 - February 22, 1911), born to free parents in Baltimore, ... Brown, and Harriet Tubman, all who worked in the abolitionist cause, if not ...24 KB (3,721 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... The word blasphemy is derived from the Middle English blasfemen, which ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... :Ruling that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July or July 4th) is ... speeches, and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private ...20 KB (2,843 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents ...50 KB (7,439 words) - 11:53, 3 May 2023
- lawyer but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery ... As a Radical Republican leader in the Senate during Reconstruction ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- 26, 1902) was an activist and a leader of the early women's rights ... their disagreement over ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments ...33 KB (5,008 words) - 16:16, 13 February 2024
- 2023) was an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice ... Due to her case-by-case approach to jurisprudence and her relatively ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- The term Ahmadi (Urdu: اØÙ…Ø¯ÛŒÛ Ahmadiyya) refers ... Following Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's death, the original Ahmadiyya ...36 KB (5,381 words) - 06:53, 16 June 2023
- official, and legal scholar who served as the Solicitor General of the United ... The contentious confirmation battle that led to the Senate rejecting ...35 KB (4,931 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- The United States Senate is the smaller body, of the United States ... The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution disqualifies ...71 KB (10,564 words) - 21:06, 30 December 2023
- The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American ... After the Civil War, the South was largely devastated in terms of ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- star, often within a circle, is one of the oldest markings known to humankind ... The pentagram has been used for a wide variety of purposes over the ...20 KB (3,104 words) - 07:21, 23 November 2022
- was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... law firm before becoming a law professor at the University of Virginia. In ...85 KB (12,298 words) - 05:39, 11 August 2023
- Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the ... Reconstruction is generally dated from 1865 to 1877, but some historians ...46 KB (6,871 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five ... Brooklyn is coterminous with Kings County, which is the most populous ...28 KB (4,109 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- The United States House of Representatives is the larger of the two ... The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol. The ...85 KB (12,273 words) - 00:47, 30 December 2023
- attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah ... Hatch chaired the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and ...48 KB (6,423 words) - 21:40, 4 December 2022
- Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and ... The term Jim Crow comes from the minstrel show song "Jump Jim ...24 KB (3,703 words) - 12:44, 1 August 2022
- USA, coterminous with New York County. It is the most densely populated area ... A commercial, financial, and cultural center of the city, Manhattan ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the ... Gore subsequently became chairman of the Emmy Award-winning American ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Tennessee is a state located in the Southern United States. In 1796 ... The State joined the Confederate States of America during the American ...47 KB (6,620 words) - 03:00, 19 April 2023
- jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... #039;s rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. In 1980, President ...79 KB (11,056 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... Jesus' command to "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- West Virginia is a state in the Appalachia/Upland South region of ... West Virginia is one of the Border States. The state's Northern ...40 KB (5,933 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- Delhi, sometimes referred to as Dilli or Dhilli, is the second largest ... Delhi is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world ...33 KB (4,788 words) - 09:20, 28 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Norway, commonly known as Norway, is a Nordic country ... Norway plays a significant role in the pursuit of stability and world ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... Occupied by both Germany and the Soviet Union, Lithuania lost over ...40 KB (5,565 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- and educator, widely recognized as the foremost black intellectual ... addition of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. ...29 KB (4,549 words) - 21:59, 3 May 2023
- Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland, is a country of northwestern ... Iceland has been inhabited since about the year 874 when, according ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled ... The parliamentary system was the first form of representative government ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- Europe bordering Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova ... Many Romanians take pride in being the most eastern Romance people ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...93 KB (13,999 words) - 16:07, 16 May 2024
- ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- The American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) was a biblically based ... The founding fathers of the United States had written of humanity ...74 KB (11,453 words) - 06:02, 16 June 2023
