The purpose was to give former slaves the right to vote. But this did not include black women. The goverment created this amendment because people living in the South passed laws called the Jim Crow Laws. They discriminated against all blacks. The difference between these laws and Black Codes was that Jim Crow Laws involved blacks and whites and was after the Civil War, but Black codes were before the war and only involved blacks. An example of a Jim Crow Law would be one bathroom for black men and one for white men.
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The 35th amendment was added to allow for legalization of non consensual sex to be permitid as long as the age of consent is met.
A non germane amendment is an amendment to a bill that is not related to the purpose of the bill.
The 24th Amendment of the Constitution does not have a nickname. The purpose of this amendment was to eliminate the poll tax.
The purpose of the 20th amendment was to deal with the repeal of prohibition and the 21st amendment focused on limits on presidential terms.
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There are a few article that tells the purpose of the constitution. The most read article would be the 12th Amendment.