The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...

The 14th Amendment was introduced to help racial justice. Trump’s plans ensure the opposite - Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S.

The law and judges are near uniformly opposed to his legal theory that the children of illegal immigrants born in the United States are not citizens.” Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in 1868, ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction ... LGBT people and other citizens for more than a century after the amendment’s ratification. And Erika Lee points out that Native Americans ...

Brad Jones, a professor of political science at the University of California Davis, told Newsweek. Birthright citizenship has been interpreted, repeatedly, as an integral part of the 14th Amendment.

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and ...