Constitution

Today in black history: 15th amendment adopted

February 27, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1869 the 15th amendment to the Constitution ,which concerns voting rights, was passed. The amendment made it against the law to deny a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's...

South Carolina GOP seek drug tests and benefit cuts for jobless

January 12, 2012 By John Wojcik

This week a state senate panel in South Carolina approved a bill that would force unemployed workers to take drug tests in order to qualify for unemployment benefits.

Battle looms on immigration and citizenship

January 10, 2011 By Emile Schepers

The Republican ultra right is launching a multi-pronged attack on immigrants and their families.

Women and the U.S. Constitution: a call to action

January 7, 2011 By Riane Eisler And Kimberly Otis

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia just asserted for a second time that our Constitution does not protect women against discrimination, a good reason why America needs the Equal Rights Amendment.

Messing around with our citizenship

May 10, 2010 By Emile Schepers

Taking advantage of the failed bombing attempt in New York City's Times Square, for which Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin, has been arrested, U.S. Sens. Joe Lieberman, Independent-Conn., and Scott Brown, R-Mass.,...