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e. The Free Exercise Clause[1] accompanies the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause together read: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... Free exercise is the liberty of persons ...
The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [23] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. [7][8] It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. [7]
State equal rights amendments. Provide various degrees of legal protection against discrimination. States whose constitutions contain equal rights provisions (blue). In three states (yellow), such an amendment has passed one of two houses of the legislature. In one state (green), such an amendment has been sent by the legislature to an upcoming ...
Your guide to where LGBTQ+ issues are on the ballot this November. Same-sex marriage has been legal in all 50 states for nearly a decade, ever since the Supreme Court struck down all state bans in ...
The issue of school speech or curricular speech as it relates to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution has been the center of controversy and litigation since the mid-20th century. The First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech applies to students in the public schools. In the landmark decision Tinker v.
t. e. Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [2] The demand for women's suffrage began to gather ...
The American Equal Rights Association (AERA) was formed in 1866 in the United States. According to its constitution, its purpose was "to secure Equal Rights to all American citizens, especially the right of suffrage, irrespective of race, color or sex." [1] Some of the more prominent reform activists of that time were members, including women ...