The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

On Thursday, a fourth federal judge blocked the executive order issued by the president on his first day in the Oval Office.

In a recent New York Times op ed, legal scholars Randy Barnett and Ilan Wurman offer a partial defense of President Trump's ...

United States President Donald Trump has suggested that the 14th Amendment right to American ... to do with granting citizenship to former slaves. The President stated this in a post on Truth ...

The 14th Amendment's original intent was to grant ... Lincoln's proclamation freed the slaves in the southern states. But he knew that an executive action was not enough, it had to be codified ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for what he calls “gate ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

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 ...

The purpose of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment — which begins ... the writing and ratification of the 14th Amendment: those Black Americans, free and freed, who had been illegally imported ...

It was the 14th Amendment to the Constitution — known as the birthright amendment and intended to provide citizenship and equal rights protection to people recently freed from slavery — that ...