What the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...
The 14th Amendment has been about much more than birthright citizenship
The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...
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Equality and The Fourteenth Amendment: A New Constitution
Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...
How the modern Supreme Court might view the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship
In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented.
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Reading Between the Battle Lines of the Constitution: An Annotated Guide
This was eliminated by the 14th Amendment, which established equal protection of the laws and due process for all. Critics of the Tea Party point to this clause in the original constitution as ...