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 ...

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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 ...