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 ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was thus necessary to overturn ... government rest on the active consent of the governed. In A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), Thomas Jefferson ...

The Equal Protection Clause is a section of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that "no state shall...deny to any citizen within its jurisdiction the equal ...

The 14th amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868, to grant citizenship and equal protection of the law to anyone “born or naturalized in the United States,” including formerly enslaved Black ...

The intent of the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause is central to the debate over whether former President Donald Trump's name should be stricken from GOP primary ballots now that the issue ...

In her speech, Jackson states that the Framers of the 14th Amendment adopted it “in a race conscious way,” as they were “trying to ensure that people who had been discriminated against ...

"So, even if trump (sic) wins, he cannot become president. Is that incorrect?” Neither the 14th Amendment nor any other part of the Constitution bans felons from taking office, an expert told ...

Democrats in Congress for years have labeled Donald Trump an “insurrectionist,” impeached him for stoking violence on Jan. 6, 2021, and suggested he is constitutionally prohibited from ...

The vehicle for this is supposedly the Fourteenth Amendment, Section Three. Section Three was ratified in 1868 following the Civil War as a way to keep former Confederate officials out of government.

My previous letter showed the Roe v. Wade case set the abortion privilege on bedrock in that the 14th Amendment determines "all persons born" were citizens of Congress recognized in law ...