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 ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

Republicans in Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment to secure equal citizenship and the Fifteenth Amendment to protect the right to vote regardless of race, amendments that guaranteed ...

When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to end universal birthright citizenship and limit it at ...

President Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship has reignited a debate on the issue, with Rep. Brian Babin ...

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

Edgar Cowan suggested excluding from birthright citizenship “Gypsies,” “Australians ... “shall be regarded as citizens of the ...

After all, basic rights of citizenship, like suffrage and equal treatment, were denied certain racial groups for a hundred years after the 14th Amendment. “The idea of a law applying to ‘all ...