The 13th Amendment freed all slaves and indentured servants throughout the United States. Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was more limited. Alexander Gardner / Stringer / Getty Images ...

But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrec­tion or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or ...

In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter,” says Damon Hewitt, president and ...

Did Failed Constitutional Amendments Include Ban on Divorce, 'United States of the Earth'? Since 1789, there have been more than 11,000 proposals to change the U.S. Constitution.

The second way to propose an amendment is by two-thirds “…of the several States,” which “…call a Convention for proposing Amendments….” The first process is by far the more popular.

Voters in six states -- Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Nevada, and North Carolina -- all approved amendments to their state constitutions expanding the rights of crime victims.

And, importantly, the Judiciary Act of 1789 provided for jury trials in "all suits at common law in which the United States sue," even before the ratification of the Seventh Amendment in 1791.