The Supreme Court recently allowed Donald Trump to edge closer to ending Birthright Citizenship as outlined in the Fourteenth ...

The North had won the Civil War, but its victory was put in jeopardy by the lax policy of President Andrew Johnson. The successor to the assassinated Abraham Lincoln had been pardoning former ...

Early versions of the 14th Amendment’s Section 3 suggested the Committee was in no mood to forgive and forget Johnson’s heavy-handed actions. In Section 3, it provided: ...

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 ...

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

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On May 30, 1866, the U.S. Senate kicked off its debate on the Citizenship Clause of the proposed 14th Amendment, which says, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to ...

Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis/Getty The 14th Amendment had scarcely passed to the states for ratification in June 1866 when Congress realized its insufficiency.

A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity ...