It was important because later on people could use it and modify it accordingly to their dialect. People could write what they felt, saw, experience and so one and they didn't have to only rely on words who have close to no validity.
David Lloyd George was the prime minister at the time
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President
The Fourteenth Amendment<span> (proposed in 1866 and ratified in 1868) provides a broad definition of national citizenship, overturning the </span>Dred Scott<span> case, which excluded African Americans. It requires the states to provide equal protection under the law to all persons (not only to citizens) within their jurisdictions.</span>
The Thirteenth Amendment (proposed and ratified in
The Fifteenth Amendment (ratified in 1870) grants voting rights regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
1865) abolished slavery.
"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it". His idea was that if your government seems to violate your rights or be harmful to society, the people can change or destroy that government altogether.
