Opinion: Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers writes regularly about civics education and the U.S. Constitution.

The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the US"—why does Trump wants to change it?

President Trump’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship will do irreparable harm to families across our community.

The drafters of Sections 1 and 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment understood Section 5 as providing an unquestionable constitutional base for the 1866 Civil Rights Act, and Section 1 as embedding the ...

The presidential oath is separately provided for in the final clause of Section 1 of Article II ... Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment explicitly anticipates such Congressional action by ...

The 14th Amendment was passed by the U.S. Senate in 1866 and ratified two years later by 28 of the 37 states at that time, ...

And such is the case with the 14th Amendment, especially Section 1. The 14th Amendment's original intent was to grant citizenship to the Blacks in America who had just been made free by the 13th ...

Section 8, the enforcement clause of the Fourteenth Amendment grants to Congress the power to pass legislation directed at effectuating the provisions of Sections 1 through 4 of the amendment.

Ordinarily, the courts carefully scrutinize state restrictions on the right to vote to assess their constitutionality under the equal protection clause of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to ...