A judge has rejected a challenge to Michigan's longtime ban on taxpayer-funded abortions for low-income residents, saying a ...

After an investigation into California’s legal protection of biological males who identify as female competing in the same ...

Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act combat ongoing racial discrimination, establish basic standards for free and fair elections, and expand early ...

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.

and its 19th century evidence 'cannot provide much insight into the meaning of the Second Amendment when it contradicts earlier evidence.'" The immediate nationwide impact of the ruling is unclear.

The passage of the 19th Amendment didn’t exactly follow a linear, standardized timeline. The broad assumption made with the ratification of the 19th Amendment was that the right to contribute to the ...

The nineteenth amendment, which bears her name, was drafted by Miss Anthony in 1875 and first introduced in Congress in 1878 by Senator A.A. Sargent of California; and it is in the same language ...

On August 26, 1920, the 19th amendment was adopted into the U.S. Constitution, opening the doors of opportunity to women across the country.

Two years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Soledad Chávez de Chacón became the first Hispanic woman elected to a statewide office. Chacón, a widely known suffragette who came ...