And it said each southern state must approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that gave citizenship to blacks.

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The Seventh Amendment gives the same right in civil cases that involve more than a small amount of money.

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It must agree to an amendment to the constitution that would return political balance to North and South.

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The First Amendment of the Constitution supports religious freedom and places religion outside the reach of the government.

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Charles Haynes is a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center, a group that studies free expression issues.

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But Lincoln was the leading force behind the Thirteenth Amendment which officially ended slavery in the United States.

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He said that the First Amendment works by "building a wall of separation between church and state."

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Seventy-two years later the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.

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After the Civil War in the eighteen sixties, the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution.

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Those words are part of the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of expression and other rights.

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However,only thirty-five states approved the amendment by the deadline so it never went into effect.

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Then,in nineteen seventy-one, the twenty-sixth amendment to the Constitution set the voting age at eighteen.

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The Supreme Court has heard many cases that test the meaning of the First Amendment.

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She worked tirelessly to get Congress and the states to approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that would provide equal rights for women.

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Later cases ruled that teaching religious creation stories in public schools violates the First Amendment of the Constitution that calls for separation of church and state.

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This amendment,and the Volstead Act, made it unlawful to make,sell or transport liquor.

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But school officials under the First Amendment may not take sides in religion."

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How the First Amendment applies to life in America has often been disputed.

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The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees free speech and a free press.

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The House of Representatives approved this Equal Rights Amendment in nineteen seventy-one.

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Thirty-eight of the fifty state legislatures were required to approve the amendment.

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"They found an amendment or a post-script or something to the will.

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