The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Before the Civil War, states didn’t necessarily have to follow the provisions stated in the Bill of Rights; only Congress had to. The 14th Amendment changed that. “This second sentence of the ...

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution , ...

A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship ...

it never passed. The bill would have amended the Immigration and Nationality Act, but the real issue was it violated the 14th Amendment, making it simply unconstitutional. The amendment’s ...

Critically for Trump’s purposes, the amendment is not restricted to consecutive terms. Virtually every constitutional scholar ...

Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve ...

The Bill of Rights' passive voice consistently elevates ... Thus, the Constitution, especially following the 14th Amendment's ratification, safeguards these rights from an exhaustive catalog ...

Amid reports of “enhanced targeted operations” conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements in Austin, it begs ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... attempting to end birthright citizenship, guaranteed in the 14th Amendment and championed for decades in the 19th century by Black ...