Constitutional amendments: beyond the Bill of Rights

A collection of sixteen controversial essays by such noted persons as Martin Luther King, Jr., James R. Doolittle, Frederick Douglass, and Earl Warren, who debate issues concerning the Fifteenth Amendment and who should be entitled to vote.

Provides historical background information about the Nineteenth Amendment, which provided voting rights to women, and includes essays that debate issues associated with women's rights.

A collection of controversial essays that debate issues associated with the Twenty-sixth Amendment, including its historical background and changing the voting age.

Provides historical background information about the Seventeenth Amendment and includes essays that debate issues associated with establishing election to the United States Senate.

Examines the twenty-second amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which limits to two the number of terms to which a person may be elected president, providing historical background, court cases, and debates about its impact.

Explores Amendment XIV of the Constitution through primary and secondary sources. Chapters put the amendment in historical context, examine how it has been tested in the courts and presents current controversies.

Explore the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States through primary and secondary sources, both historical and contemporary.

Explores the Twelfth Constitutional Amendment through primary and secondary sources.

Explores the Thirteenth Constitutional Amendment through primary and secondary sources.

Explores the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States through primary and secondary sources, both historical and contemporary.