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Self Interest or self-interested.
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Congress
Article 1 of the Congress is huge (just did a project), detailed explanation of the house and senate.
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. Through the use of poll taxes, literacy tests and other means, Southern states were able to effectively disenfranchise African Americans. It would take the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote.
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1. They emphasized the universal ideals of the Enlightenment such as the equality of all men including equal justice under law by disinterested courts as opposed to particular justice handed down at the whim of a local noble.
2. In recent years policies affecting women's reproductive rights in the United States have substantially changed at both the federal and state levels. Between the publication of the 2004 Status Of Women in the States report and this report, states overall made nominal progress on two indicators and declined or stayed the same on five others.