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Bookmark or Share- The Constitutional Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.The Constitutional Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1976, when I was in tenth grade, the dreaded “back-to-school” assignment for my American history class was to write an essay about the three most important Americans in our nation’s two hundred-year history. This was, I suppose, our school’s nod to the celebration of the ...
- Enforcing the 14th Amendment’s Bar on Insurrectionist Officers and ...Enforcing the 14th Amendment’s Bar on Insurrectionist Officers and Candidates. Gerard Magliocca Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. With the Senate’s acquittal of former President Trump, the focus now turns to whether Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits him from serving as ...
- The Fourteenth Amendment - American Constitution Society14th Amendment – Brown v. Board | 2 The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy I. Icebreaker The League of Women Voters of Alameda County, in partnership with ACS, has created an online trivia game with general questions about the Constitution, VerifyIt!. This is a great, interactive way to start a virtual CITC lesson.
- Private: Through A Glass Darkly: The Supreme Court, Reconstruction ...Between 1866 and 1875, in the wake of the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Reconstruction Congress enacted five civil rights statutes that were not only extraordinarily forward-thinking for their time but, in many ways, were far more advanced than much of what now passes for modern civil rights law: the Freedmen’s Bureau Act of 1866 ...
- What History Teaches Us About “Critical Race Theory” BansIn suppressing discussion and debate about the nature of racial oppression in the U.S., right-wing leaders and operatives are drawing upon strategies first developed in the antebellum South to suppress criticism of slavery and targeting precisely the kind of speech the framers of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments sought to protect after the ...
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