Among other important amendments are the Thirteenth (1865), which abolished slavery; the Fourteenth (1868), which granted citizenship rights to former slaves and guaranteed to every citizen due process and equal protection of the laws; the Fifteenth (1870), which granted voting rights to former male slaves; the Seventeenth (1913), which provided for the direct election of U.S. senators; the Nineteenth (1920), which established woman suffrage; the Twenty-Second (1951), which limited a president to a maximum of two elected terms in office; and the Twenty-Sixth (1971), which extended voting right...

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Before September 11th, the bombing of the Murrah Building was the worst terrorist act in American history. ... The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment "prohibits selective enforcement of the law based on considerations such as race (MacDonald 113)."" ...

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