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This volume presents the legal concepts of the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments in an engagingly simplified, easily understandable way, while reflecting provisions in both the national and state curriculum standards. Readers will look at these two amendments in historical context, examining how they have been tested in the courts and present current controversies and debates. Lastly, readers will examine each amendment's current relevance.

Voting is an American right, but what age that right should be exercised has been hotly debated throughout America's history. This volume helps readers analyze the Twenty-Sixth Amendment. They will review its historical background, its constitutional implications, and how the youth vote in America today.

Editor Carrie Fredericks has compiled compelling essays and primary sources on the Nineteenth Amendment, which grants the right to vote to women. Essay sources include Frederick Douglass, Ellen DuBois, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The New York Times, The Associated Press, James E. Potter, and Gloria Steinem.

The right to vote was not always granted to all Americans, which is a horrible blemish on American history, nevertheless this crucial right is held under the Fifteenth Amendment. Readers will examine its historical background, its challenges, and its successes. Readers will come to understand the necessity of ensuring voting rights in contemporary America.

Due process is probably one of the most important rights that your readers should know about, understand, and keep with themselves for the rest of their lives. Due process is fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement. This collection of essays presents the Fourteenth amendment through several essays that debate is meaning and use. Topics include truancy, double jeopardy, a woman's right to choose abortion, student suspension, detainees of the war on terrorism, music piracy, and immigration reform.

Editor Sylvia Engdahl explores a highly controversial topic, the right to equal protection under the law. This right grants everyone protection, but we haven't always granted it equally. Timely essays in this volume debate school segregation, a woman's right in relation to non-consent pregnancy, an unborn child's rights, the rights of children of illegal immigrants, and gay marriage.

One of the most stirring moments in history was when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Along with this crucial primary source, readers are treated to an amazing collection of essays about the abolishment of slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment. Readers will evaluate the historical defense of slavery and its rejection, reactions to Lincoln's proclamation, and they will learn how early Supreme Court rulings actually undermined this amendment's power. Other topics include segregation, housing developments, road closings, America's debt to slaves, immigrant labor, modern-day slavery, and slavery in American prisons and suburbs.

Rather than a dry, hard-to-understand reference book on our Constitutional rights, this collection of essays presents a lively discussion of what citizenship for all really means. Essay resources include Akhil Reed Amar, James F. Wilson, Priscilla Huang, Horace Gray, Melville Fuller, and Dmitri Vasillaros. Essay topics include slavery, federal despotism, naturalized citizens, undocumented immigrants, and dual citizenship.

An introductory essay sets the stage for the dramatic details of Watergate, a scandal that rocked American politics. This collection of essays deeply explores this event, and each essay is preceded by a summary of the essay's main points and conclusion. Readers will be fascinated by the essays and history of Watergate.

Perhaps one of the most hotly debated issues of the 2016 Presidential election was the role of the Electoral College, after the victor was announced. After an introduction to the history of the Twelfth Amendment, readers will examine several topics relating to the Presidential election process, including the Electoral College. Essay sources include Lolabel House, Akhil Reed Amar, Gaye Wilson, Jess Bravin, Vikram David Amar, Jennifer Steinhauer, and George C. Edwards III.