This had to do with the babies of slaves,” the president asserted yesterday, at a press conference celebrating a Supreme Court decision that partially clears the way for the administration to end the ...

Debate from 1866 over 14th Amendment raging anew with challenges to ... “The Conservative parasites of Andrew Johnson say that he is carrying out in good faith the purposes and principles of the ...

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The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing. ... Andrew Johnson, ...

The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every child was born ... many Americans — including President Andrew Johnson — thought that the country’s four million Black residents should ...