was a “relic of slavery” prohibited under the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Avoiding the requirements of the state-action doctrine under the Fourteenth Amendment, which made prohibition of private ...

Birthright citizenship opens the Fourteenth Amendment. It opens the Amendment because it is crucial.

The U.S. is one of more than 30 countries with unrestricted birthright citizenship. Trump said in a recent interview that he ...

and the Constitution 'This timely book shows how the country ended slavery and embraced a new constitutional vision of equality in the wake of the Civil War.' Michael W. McConnell, Stanford Law School ...

NBC "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker left out a key portion of the Fourteenth Amendment when she challenged ...

Okay, but how could the 14th Amendment get us out of this recurring mess? Isn’t that the amendment that officially ended slavery? What does that have to do with paying debts and borrowing money?

with slavery and emancipation. Thus, the Equal Protection Clause can be understood only as an organic part of the Fourteenth Amendment and in the broader context of all the Reconstruction amendments.

The other two Reconstruction Amendments are the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment is important because of its simplicity: Slavery of all forms for free persons was ...

On 'Meet the Press,' Donald Trump again promised to use executive action to change birthright citizenship. What does that ...

Therefore, Lincoln sought to make the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery the top priority of the Republican Party platform in the 1864 Presidential election. Initially, the 14th Amendment passed ...

The proposal by Donald Trump to eliminate birthright citizenship by executive fiat on “day one” of his second administration ...

Trump said he will end the longstanding practice of conferring citizenship on anyone born in the United States, even when the ...