The 2025 American Family Survey finds most people support the constitutional right although President Trump tried to end it.

Supporters need to follow Frederick Douglass' example — and make a case for conceiving of citizenship more broadly.

President Donald Trump is attempting to rewrite the Constitution without amending it, one executive order at a time. One of his biggest targets: the birthright citizenship that has defined American ...

In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that the children of immigrants who were born in the United States had the right to citizenship—even if their parents weren’t citizens themselves. This is Wong Kim Ark ...

OPEN TO DEBATE: Birthright citizenship, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment’s jus soli principle, grants U.S. citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of parents’ legal status. Recently, it ...

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order aimed at ending automatic citizenship — known as “birthright citizenship” — for children born in the United States to two ...

1862: President Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all those enslaved in rebel-held territory would be "thenceforward, and forever, free." Credit - MPI/Getty ...