Yet, every person present in the United States is not presumed to have fealty to the United States, which is what “jurisdiction” means in the Fourteenth Amendment. And it is clearly not the ...

‘Kill the last damned one:’ The Memphis Race Massacre Exactly one year after the end of the Civil War, on April 9, 1866, ...

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The lawsuit cites Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was ratified ... making him subject to the disqualification provision. "Andrew Johnson, who was president at the time, repeatedly referred ...

Johnson decided that the Southern states were only required to swear fealty to the Union and incorporate the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, into their state constitutions -- all else was up ...

On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted along party lines, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Days later ...