This is the first amendment and likely the most important. It grants citizens to peacefully disagree with their neighbors. It gives citizens the right to their own religion and the own right to print what they like as long as it is not libelous. Freedom is the cornerstone of the bill of rights (Amendments 1 to 10)
14 After the civil war and after Lincoln's assassination, the colored were granted citizenship.
19 This is actually my favorite one. It granted women political rights after WWI. Can you imagine that the constitution was hammered out in the late 1700 and it was not until 1920 that women got the rights they deserved. I'm a male by the way.
Victims of piracy endured torture, floggings, and ceremonies of humiliation, but when brought to justice, the pirates were given such punishments as lengthy prison sentences, transportation to work in the deadly conditions of African mines, or public execution by hanging.
The courts decision was that he would be the acting governor until a special election could be held to decide the remainder of the original term, which would have run from 1947-1951.
