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 ...

As a general rule, babies born in the United States of America are citizens of the United States of America. There isn’t any question about that. It’s in the Constitution, 14th Amendment: “All persons ...

U.S. Supreme Court Building Credit: Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0 Rights groups in Arkansas see the potential end of birthright citizenship as yet another attack on immigrants by the Trump administration.

The National Archives Foundation and More Perfect announced today that the nationwide final vote was between the 13th and 14th amendments—in this first-of-its-kind competition among 100 historical ...

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...

CLEVELAND - The constitutional amendment at the heart of the Trump administration’s fight over birthright citizenship was drafted by a little-known Ohio congressman from a small town in Harrison ...

As constitutional turns of phrase go, the part of the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship seems more straightforward than most: “All persons born or naturalized in the United ...

There has been some originalist debate of late about the proper reading of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The fate of the Trump administration's executive order excluding new ...

new video loaded: The ‘Constitutional Bedrock’ Trump Is Trying to Erase transcript Trump is on a mission to eliminate birthright citizenship, a right long thought to be guaranteed by the 14th ...

When President Trump returned to the White House last year, he made it clear in many ways that he was determined to do whatever he wanted without regard for the law or the Constitution. One was his ...