Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution , ...

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in ...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, white southerners tried to restore, at gunpoint, the slave society that had existed prior to the war, notwithstanding the Thirteenth Amendment’s abolition of ...

Over the years, the right to citizenship has been won by various oppressed or marginalized groups after hard-fought legal battles. Here's a look at how birthright citizenship has applied to some of ...

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in 1868. That places it at an important historical crossroads, when ...

The justices said Friday they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state board's approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open a charter school.

The Enemy Property Act of 1968 regulates properties left by individuals migrating to enemy nations. The act prohibits ...

The Supreme Court ruled in 1898 that children born to foreign parents inside the U.S. are citizens, citing the 14th Amendment. The post-Civil War amendment states that 'All persons born or ...