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 ...
Establishing U.S. citizenship is supposed to be easy. In 1868, the first sentence of the newly ratified Fourteenth Amendment declared: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and ...
The extraordinary drama of framing and adopting the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment involved an extraordinarily diverse group of Americans; black and white, men and women, city and country, north ...
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Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts ...
When proposing the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress in 1866, Senator Jacob Howard referred to "the personal rights guaranteed and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as ...
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. A key part of the nation’s second founding, the Fourteenth Amendment finally made good on the Declaration ...
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Former Senior Legal Fellow, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies Thomas Jipping was a Senior Legal Fellow for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. The Fourteenth Amendment ...
In an op-ed in the July 5 Wall Street Journal, David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Gilson B. Gray argue that the Trump administration should rely upon what they see as an overlooked mandate of the Constitution.
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