And such is the case with the 14th Amendment, especially Section 1.
Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the ... thereby protecting the legal status of the newly freed slaves. Eventually, the amendment would be interpreted to apply most ...
The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...
The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1864 to ensure that newly freed slaves had the same rights and privileges under the law as any other citizen. It has been challenged many times for many reasons ...
In her speech, Jackson states that the Framers of the 14th ... Amendment doesn’t embody “a race-neutral or race-blind idea in terms of the remedy” for discrimination against freed slaves.
Since even the president cannot change the Constitution — you need a two-thirds majority in Congress and approval of ...
President Joe Biden, along with many commentators, has speculated that a president can bypass Congress by using the 14th Amendment ... rights for newly freed Black slaves, and there have been ...
Babin introduced his bill one day after Trump took executive action and said it was based on a "flawed" interpretation of the 14th Amendment, aimed at protecting recently freed slaves in the South ...