The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War in order to cement citizenship and legal ...

The 14th Amendment of 1868 grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in this country– including those previously ...

The administration's arguments for denying birthright ctizenship to children of undocumented immigrants are at odds with the ...

The Birthright Clause did not invent a new idea: it constitutionalized an old one.

Activists gather with signs outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court heard oral arguments on President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order on May 15, 2025. Credit - Bill ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

One of the most important Supreme Court rulings expected this year is whether to uphold the constitutional protection that ...

circa 1879: American journalist, author, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass (circa 1818 - 1895). Credit - Library Of Congress/Getty Images The battle over birthright citizenship rages on ...

Editor's note: This story was written in June of 2018. When “Amending America: The Bill of Rights” opens in Lancaster on Saturday, the traveling exhibit will find itself in a city that was home to a ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to end a constitutional right that automatically grants citizenship to any baby born in the United States. Trump, in an interview with "Axios on HBO," said ...

Prologue : the bread pill -- The antebellum context. The abolition movement and the problem of the Constitution ; Antislavery politics and the problem of the constitution ; The Republican Party, ...

On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump’s first day back in the White House, he issued Executive Order 14160 “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” The directive attempted to ...