In early 1866, the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction in the 39th Congress wrestled with the idea that they must write a 14th Amendment to address certain issues: Who is a citizen? How do… ...

US Constitution, Amendment 14, Section 2 says: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each ...

Section 1, for example, says that anyone born or naturalized in the US are citizens in the state they live in. But it's specifically Section 3 of the 14th Amendment that's been getting attention ...

Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Section 1 of the Amendment has encompassed cases such as Bush v. Gore (2000) , which addressed the presidential election of 2000. The amendment has been cited in a multitude of cases.

If Congress doesn't act, President Joe Biden said he has considered invoking the 14th Amendment to work around the debt ceiling and avoid a government default. However, the president has expressed ...

That clarification lines up with – and indeed reinforces – the provisions of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment. As our analysis notes, if a state legislature were to directly choose electors, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born in the United St… ...

Section 1 of the 14th Amendment was meant to ensure the freed slaves had the same rights as everyone else. Yet it has been used often and for much more than its original purpose.

Section 1, which contains the Citizenship Clause, of the 14th Amendment guarantees that right for all children born in the U.S. A look at the 14th Amendment: What the citizenship clause says ...

Section 1 of the amendment established that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, ... Some have argued that the clause, outlined in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born ...