On his first day in office, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order attacking birthright citizenship, the constitutional right giving automatic citizenship to any person born in the states ...

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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 ...

Thus, the Equal Protection Clause can be understood only as an organic part of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the broader context of all the Reconstruction amendments. Under current Supreme Court ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

Most of Reconstruction legislation is far ahead ... did not do it under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment has still not been interpreted to allow Congress to bar private ...

The 14th Amendment was one of the Reconstruction Amendments, which were amendments passed in response to the issues formerly enslaved individuals faced after the Civil War. The amendment granted ...

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ...

In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least 87 Black men were elected to and served in the Arkansas General Assembly.

The 14th Amendment was one of the Reconstruction Amendments, which were amendments passed in response to the issues formerly enslaved individuals faced after the Civil War. The amendment granted ...